Top understanding Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Tavis Smiley
Sometimes even your friends don't understand your calling, your purpose, your vocation. But you have to stand in your truth anyway, and they will eventually come around to understanding you, if you do it lovingly.
- Tavis Smiley
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Image of Peggy Orenstein
Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.
- Peggy Orenstein
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Image of Ajahn Chah
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
- Ajahn Chah
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Image of John Wyndham
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
- John Wyndham
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Image of Fritjof Capra
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.
- Fritjof Capra
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Image of Nick Bantock
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
- Nick Bantock
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Image of David Bohm
We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.
- David Bohm
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Image of Gary Becker
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
- Gary Becker
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Image of Paul Tournier
It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.
- Paul Tournier
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Image of Paul Tournier
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.
- Paul Tournier
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Image of John Pilger
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.
- John Pilger
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Image of Meg Whitman
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.
- Meg Whitman
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Image of Michael Bolton
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak
- Michael Bolton
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Image of Mike Rowe
The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.
- Mike Rowe
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Image of Alberto Villoldo
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.
- Alberto Villoldo
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Image of John Woolman
To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.
- John Woolman
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Image of Han Suyin
One should never condemn what one cannot understand.
- Han Suyin
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Image of Burt Rutan
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding
- Burt Rutan
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Image of Rick Wakeman
The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
- Rick Wakeman
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Image of Aimee Friedman
Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.
- Aimee Friedman
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Image of Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves...in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in.
- Oliver Sacks
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Image of Jeremy Narby
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?
- Jeremy Narby
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Image of David Hawkins
One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.
- David Hawkins
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Image of George Steiner
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
- George Steiner
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Image of Tom Brown, Jr.
There are paths and ruts in the spirit world as there are in the physical and mental world. One must take the tools of the spirit world and make one's own path rather than exactly follow the paths of those who once were . . . You must not seek their path and their understanding, but you must seek your own. The ruts of the spirit are trying to follow others and it cannot be done.
- Tom Brown, Jr.
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Image of George Deukmejian
My understanding has always been that if there is any indication that pesticides are harmful, that they would not be allowed to be used.
- George Deukmejian
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Image of Gisele Bundchen
Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one.
- Gisele Bundchen
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Image of John Daido Loori
just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.
- John Daido Loori
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Image of Cannonball Adderley
Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.
- Cannonball Adderley
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Image of Nelson Goodman
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
- Nelson Goodman
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Image of Oliver Heaviside
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?
- Oliver Heaviside
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Image of Vannevar Bush
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world
- Vannevar Bush
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Image of Ken Danby
Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.
- Ken Danby
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Image of Takeda Shingen
Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!
- Takeda Shingen
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Image of Susanne Katherina Langer
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.
- Susanne Katherina Langer
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Image of Wally Amos
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.
- Wally Amos
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Image of Margaret Cavendish
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
- Margaret Cavendish
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Image of Richard Goldschmidt
The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].
- Richard Goldschmidt
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Image of Margot Anand
It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates new life. The dynamics of the universe are dialectical, apparently in a conflict, but occurring within a larger context of unity and wholeness. This is the understanding of the Tantra vision.
- Margot Anand
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Image of Zhuangzi
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy
- Zhuangzi
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Image of William Matthews
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
- William Matthews
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Image of Edward J. Fraughton
With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.
- Edward J. Fraughton
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Image of Fernand Leger
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
- Fernand Leger
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Image of Jerome Bruner
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.
- Jerome Bruner
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Image of Pope Innocent III
The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.
- Pope Innocent III
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Image of Giorgio Morandi
One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.
- Giorgio Morandi
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Image of Rodney Yee
Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.
- Rodney Yee
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Image of Leonora Carrington
[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.
- Leonora Carrington
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Image of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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