Quotes with understanding

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  • Barry Malzberg Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Arlo Guthrie Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
    Arlo Guthrie
    American folk singer-songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Martin Luther Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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  • Beryl Markham For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. It demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Benjamin Watson For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Robert Penn Warren For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.
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  • Brooke Burke Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bono Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Kriyananda Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Agnes Repplier Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Helen Keller I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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