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Understanding Quotes
"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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"What you cannot understand you don't treasure."
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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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"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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"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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"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
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"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."
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"The search only ends when you finally find the one who truly gets you."
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"Be yourself to understand others."
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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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"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."
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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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"True understanding lies beyond the desert."
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"You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks."
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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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"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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"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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"Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care."
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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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"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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"The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles."
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"You recognize God when you begin to recognize people."
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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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"If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth."
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"To understand the kingdom love is to have changed system."
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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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"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."
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"God's Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom."
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"Those who understand will understand."
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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."
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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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"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
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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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"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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"We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations."
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"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
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"Man is the centrality of God's purpose on earth."
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"Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
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"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"
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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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"My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing."
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"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."
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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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"Not everyone may not think the way you do."
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