Quotes with understanding

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  • Eric Hoffer There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 114
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Aaron Klug This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Adam Weishaupt This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bodhidharma To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • William James To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • W. Clement Stone Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Sagan Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Understanding is a two-way street.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Arthur Herzog Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Raymond Holliwell Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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