Understanding Quotes - Page 3

• If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.

  Mary J. Blige

  Jobs, Work, Reflection

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Generosity

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• No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

  Nhat Hanh

  Blame, Argument, Situation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Mind, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.214

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• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Respect, Tolerance, Trying

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• If you would judge, understand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Judging, Judgement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Acceptance, Deep Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.4, Parallax Press

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• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

  Albert Einstein

  Mom, Grandma, Grandmother

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

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• Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

  Henry Williams

  Learning, Science, Simplicity

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• Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Moving, Each Day, Shapes

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• Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Understanding And Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

  James Stephens

  Education, Wedding, Wisdom

  James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.93, Booklassic

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• She live in a mindset that I could never move to

  Drake

  Change, Moving, Humble

  Song: Houstatlantavegas, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Life Changing, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Love, Animal, Humanity

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• More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Family, Country, Long

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• There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Art, Three, Understood

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

  Charles the Bold

  Inspirational, Hope, Order

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