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Understanding Quotes
"Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century."
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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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"What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others."
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"To fight evil, you have to understand the dark."
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"Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it."
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"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
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"One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him."
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"People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there!"
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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."
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"True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players."
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"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."
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"When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry."
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"You misinterpret everything, even the silence."
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"It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose."
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"You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through."
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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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"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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"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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"There's nothing like the gift of understanding."
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"Not everyone may not think the way you do."
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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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"Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
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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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"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy."
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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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"I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they understood things that boys could never understand."
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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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"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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"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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"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
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"Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder."
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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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"Deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped."
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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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"For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible."
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"Those who understand will understand."
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"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."
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"Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions."
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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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"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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"Love has no meaning without understanding."
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"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
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"I found him between a reality and a nightmare."
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"Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards."
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"There nearly always is a method in madness."
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