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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Bird

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• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Thinking, Cryptography

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.

  Oren Lyons

  Native American, Eagles, Mountain

  "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

  George S. Clason

  Inspirational, Money, Simple

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.105, Lulu.com

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Religious

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• It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Wisdom, Native American, Expression

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• The law of attraction is always working whether you believe it or understand it or not.

  Bob Proctor

  Work, Believe, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 25, 2017

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• No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

  Franz Schubert

  Music, Grief, Joy

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• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Science, Technology, Yesterday

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• We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

  James M. Barrie

  Loss, Reality, Needs

  "Margaret Ogilvy". Book by James M. Barrie, 1897.

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Teaching, Learning

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2016

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Giving, Ability

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Ideas, Confusion

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

  Robert Schumann

  Artist, Reflection, Years

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Opposites, Progress

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• There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

  Mooji

  Joy, Contentment

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  If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

  Salvador Dali

  Might, Painting, Wells

  Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

  E. J. Hughes

  Goal, Painting, Realistic

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• In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.

  Eli Siegel

  Cutting, Order, Growth

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• Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Progress, Useless

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• A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Able, Firsts, Want

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• I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Creating, Trying

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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