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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -- Albert Einstein
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. -- Og Mandino
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings. -- Haruki Murakami
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom. -- Tony Samara
I write to understand as much as to be understood. -- Elie Wiesel
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. -- J. Michael Straczynski
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. -- Elbert Hubbard
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. -- Guy Finley
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. -- J. K. Rowling
It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. -- Carl Sagan
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. -- Baruch Spinoza
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. -- Marcus Aurelius
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. -- Wayne Dyer
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. -- Dale Carnegie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -- Marie Curie
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. -- Bryant H. McGill
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. -- Richard Bach
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. -- Bertrand Russell
If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work. -- Josh Kaufman
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. -- Oswald Chambers
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside. -- Mary J. Blige
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily. -- Zig Ziglar
Understanding brings control. -- Isaac Bonewits
Understanding precedes peace. -- Vanna Bonta
Understanding arises through making -- Giambattista Vico
Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding! -- Ramana Pemmaraju
Understanding why is never enough. -- Lucy Freeman
Understanding is a two-way street. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy -- Carl Sagan
Understanding is the wages of faith. -- Saint Augustine
Understanding is the reward of faith. -- Saint Augustine
Understanding is the beginning of approving. -- Andre Gide
Understanding and connection can transcend conflict. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated. -- Robert Fripp
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. -- Nhat Hanh
Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. -- Brian Greene
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding. -- Elias Canetti
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones. -- Mason Cooley
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding. -- Benjamin Franklin
Understanding a question is half an answer. -- Socrates
Understanding is the first step of accepting! -- ey ramos
Understanding is the key to true knowledge -- Liam Williams
Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart. -- Gary Busey
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. -- Robert Ley
The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement -- Danny Silk
Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier -- Colleen Hoover
Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be. -- Arthur Herzog
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace. -- Lester B. Pearson
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. -- Thomas Hobbes
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns. -- Fritjof Capra
Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness -- Amit Abraham
Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light. -- June Goodfield
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others. -- John C. Maxwell
Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem. -- Richard Bandler
Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play. -- Albert Einstein
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. -- Paul Fussell
Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business. -- W. Edwards Deming
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age. -- Rollo May
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein. -- Martin Heidegger
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. -- Nan Fairbrother
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship. -- Woodrow Wilson
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest. -- Zhuangzi
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. -- Max Black
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled. -- Thomas Hobbes
Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality. -- Steve Maraboli
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. -- Jerome Bruner
Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life. -- Tyler Cowen
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. -- Rajneesh
Understanding that quitting is never an option, leaves winning as the only option. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it. -- Frans de Waal
Life Is Just Understanding, people Just Running but why they Run? They don't know -- Sushil Singh
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. -- Khalil Gibran
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. -- Rollo May
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. -- Minna Antrim
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. -- Clifford Stoll
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. -- Immanuel Kant
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. -- Michael J. Fox
Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. -- Alice Walker
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. -- Stephen Covey
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. -- William Glasser
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. -- Tony Robbins
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. -- Bo Bennett
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. -- LaToya Jackson
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. -- Amelia Earhart
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you. -- Harvey Mackay
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. -- Gerard Depardieu
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -- Ann Landers
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. -- Stephen Hawking
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. -- William Wilberforce
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. -- Josephine Baker
Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together. -- Linda Thompson
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. -- Andy Goldsworthy
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena. -- John Roos
Diversity means understanding. -- Stuart Scott
Experience precedes understanding. -- Jean Piaget
Intellectual understanding blocks empathy. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Acceptance comes through understanding. -- Steven Petrow
Education is understanding relationships. -- George Washington Carver
From understanding comes LOVE. -- Rumi
Peace comes through understanding -- Albert Einstein
Obedience completes itself in understanding. -- Phillips Brooks
Criminals thrive on society's understanding. -- Newt Gingrich
Many confuse understanding with believing. -- Watchman Nee
All understanding begins in wonder! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some things were beyond understanding. -- Nicholas Sparks
Conceit is incompatible with understanding. -- Leo Tolstoy
Knowledge without understanding is useless. -- Thucydides
Much learning does not teach understanding. -- Heraclitus
Some things are beyond human understanding. -- Alexandra Adornetto
American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view. -- Jim DeMint

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