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Understanding Quotes
"True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players."
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"Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century."
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"My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand the principle in question, while being ignorant implies that you do not understand the principle in question, and therefore, have no right to critique."
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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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"Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay."
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"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs."
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"To fight evil, you have to understand the dark."
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"Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page " but then the world is the same way, isn't it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition."
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"When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing."
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"When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry."
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"We scientists perceive it as the Truth that will give us absolute understanding of the universe " which is impossible at the moment for a young species like us. On the other hand, the mystics perceive the Ultimate Truth, to be the attainment of Absolute Divinity, which all the religious giants experienced. But this attainment, is nowhere near the actual Ultimate Truth " it is only a subjective experience of the mind, evoked by specific internal and external stimuli."
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"I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving."
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"I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper."
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"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"
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"The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love."
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"Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values."
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"Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life."
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"To have seen something means it has come into one's understanding. To have known something means it has come into one's knowledge. There is a vast difference between 'seeing' and 'knowing'."
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"QuizA¡s aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegarA© a entenderte. Y no habrA¡ nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo."
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"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."
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"The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching."
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"There's nothing like the gift of understanding."
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"Every person just has a unique combination of common problems. If we accept this, we can work together to fix ourselves."
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"If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,you will find that there are many wisdoms came out of truth.In the end, you must find truth and define your own wisdom."
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"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."
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"The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success."
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"You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God."
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"There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody, the patience and impatience of the person!"
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"I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself."
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"For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible."
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"When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person."
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"You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own."
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"Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions."
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"It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position."
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"There nearly always is a method in madness."
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"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."
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"To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean."
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"Love has no meaning without understanding."
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"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."
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"You misinterpret everything, even the silence."
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"If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering."
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"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."
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"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."
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"Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss."
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"He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had none of the problems that Shadow had. Ainsel had never been married. Mike Ainsel had never been interrogated on a freight train by Mr. Wood an Mr. Stone. Televisions did not speak to Mike Ainsel (You want to see Lucy's tits? asked a voice in his head)."
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"Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree."
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"When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity."
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"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."
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"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."
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"We only perceive God when we receive people."
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