Understanding Quotes - Page 9

• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

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• As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sacrifice, Joy, Novelists

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 30, 2012

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• I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

  Princess Diana

  Dream, Boys, People

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• If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Time, Masters, Insight

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Overcoming, May, Mysterious

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

  Yann Martel

  Life, Travel, Stories

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.428, Canongate Books

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• The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

  Sigmund Freud

  Essence, People, Progress

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• I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

  Victoria Wood

  Funny, Dance, Thinking

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• Settle your quarrels, come together,
  understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is
  already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that
  generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to
  act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in
  revolution.

  George Jackson

  Love, Failure, Reality

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press

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• The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Use, Nostalgia

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• I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, God, Faith

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• Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

  Florence Littauer

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Christian

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Stories

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• It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

  Mark Lanegan

  Inspirational, Music, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

  Helen Rowland

  Women, Order, Needs

  Helen Rowland (2017). “The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon”, p.3, Litres

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• Understanding is a two-way street.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Two, Way

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• It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Duty, Humans

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

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• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

  George Orwell

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.191, Arcturus Publishing

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• Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

  Ken Danby

  May, Want, Relate

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Mean, Artist, People

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• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Morning, Believe

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