Understanding Quotes
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Samuel Johnson -
Instead of understanding the crisis facing the country and helping the country, the opposition wants to weaken the country by its deeds.
Rajiv Gandhi
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If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.
David Blackwell -
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.
Barack Obama -
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.
Oswald Chambers -
Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan
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Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.
Jenna Elfman -
I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.
Boyd Holbrook -
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
Bill Gurley -
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Heraclitus -
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
Claire Tomalin
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I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.
Jeanne Phillips -
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
Peter Drucker -
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
Betty Smith -
At one point, you were that employee who looked like a deer in headlights. Confused, lost, and not understanding your purpose within the organization. Even though you have the appropriate skills, you felt like you were in over your head. That is, until an amazing boss empowered you.
John Rampton -
Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.
Amanda de Cadenet -
I think we realized what was at stake.
Joe Gibbs
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin Cruz Smith -
The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.
Luchino Visconti -
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
David Eagleman