Understanding Quotes
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
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There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
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Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.
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Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.
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Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
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Some things were beyond understanding.
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It is not for us to judge those who might be confused or who have not the strength to change. What they need is our understanding and support.
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I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.
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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.
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There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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I have a pretty good understanding of animals.
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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.
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Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
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...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.
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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.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
