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Understanding Quotes
"You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks."
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"Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God " a being capable of understanding."
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"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."
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"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."
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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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"A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human."
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"Man is the centrality of God's purpose on earth."
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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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"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."
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"You recognize God when you begin to recognize people."
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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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"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
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"The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love."
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"I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too."
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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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"Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
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"True understanding lies beyond the desert."
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"The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect " attributes that many humans have cast off, along with an appreciation of the natural world."
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"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
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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 wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
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"Be yourself to understand others."
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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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"The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within."
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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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"Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other."
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"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."
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"Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need."
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"To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies."
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"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."
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"When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the same thing. For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness BUT I can't do it. Firstly, replace 'I can't do it' with:I am choosing to remain in the state of being of ignorance (misinformation), because I believe it to be the best option I can choose from.Secondly, replace 'I understand the importance of forgiveness' with:'I do not understand the importance of forgiveness'. Being honest with oneself is the first step to self-understanding."
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"I know that most men-not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever, and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic problems-can very seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as to oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty-conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives."
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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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"My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.''That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.''True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way."
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"There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding " one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that's based on undisputed belief on the scriptures."
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"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."
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"I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them-the bad kids and the good kids and all kids-as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized."
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"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."
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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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"We only perceive God when we receive people."
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"Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won't make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'."
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"The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all."
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"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
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"In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived."
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"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."
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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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"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."
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"To understand the kingdom love is to have changed system."
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