Understanding Quotes
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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.
Saint Augustine
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You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.
David Grinspoon
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The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Tony Orlando
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Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
Guan Moye
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It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.
George Will
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There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, 'Either is both, and Both is neither.'
Plutarch
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The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.
David Bornstein
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.
Helen Keller
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Raymond Williams
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As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
Charles de Foucauld
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I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.
Tracy Reese
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Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.
Ernie Pyle
