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All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man. -- John Donne
It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up. -- Krishna Das
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. -- William Hazlitt
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. -- Lord Chesterfield
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. -- Lord Chesterfield
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings. -- Lord Chesterfield
Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom. -- Amit Ray
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. -- John Aubrey
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts. -- Tariq Ramadan
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. -- John Katzman
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. -- George Eliot
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] -- Lucretius
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. -- William Hazlitt
I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that. -- Marion Cotillard
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. -- John Locke
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings. -- William Blake
As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had. -- Frederick Lenz
As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had. -- Frederick Lenz
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge. -- Lord Chesterfield
Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life. -- Temple Grandin
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions. -- Joseph Glanvill
I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief. -- Michel de Montaigne
You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. -- Tony Robbins
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. -- Tony Robbins
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure. -- Ursula Goodenough
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value. -- Phil McGraw
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
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Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. -- Robert Emmet
Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings... -- James Hollis
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use. -- Samuel Johnson
I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine. -- Barack Obama
Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight." -- Kiese Laymon
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat. -- Edmund Burke
I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around. -- Jim Palmer
We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it. -- Abraham Lincoln

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