Quotes with understanding

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  • Stephen Hawking My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
    Stephen Hawking's Universe (1985) by John Boslough , Ch. 7
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anne Sullivan My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bono My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
    The Sociological Imagination
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Avi Arad No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Malcolm X One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Hoff One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
    The Tao of Pooh
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Abba Eban Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Power is the by-product of understanding.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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