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"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret."
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"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."

"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"

"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."

"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."

"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."

"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves."

"No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it."
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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."


"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."


"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."


"But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects."


"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."


"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television."
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