Understanding Quotes
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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.
Sarah Dessen -
Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
Tim Robbins -
Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.
Helen Keller -
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
Herbie Hancock -
We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.
Carol Ann Tomlinson -
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
Sun Ra -
Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.
Simon Sinek
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
Richard Feynman -
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
Carson McCullers -
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
Hu Shih -
I have a pretty good understanding of animals.
Eric Stonestreet -
If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
Eric Greitens -
We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that passes understanding is not a subjective sensation of peace; if we are in Christ, we are in peace even when we feel no peace.
Brennan Manning
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
Terence McKenna -
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
Nicole Kidman -
You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.
Tony Gilroy -
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
Lois McMaster -
The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.
David Bowie -
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.
Richard Feynman
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I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
Terence McKenna -
...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.
Elizabeth Bear