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When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. -- Nick Cave
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer. -- Farrah Fawcett
In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory. -- David Gross
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. -- Philip Yancey
People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world. -- Wu Wei
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. -- John Bunyan
These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life. -- Gish Jen
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. -- Lester Bangs
A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there. -- Kevin Baggett
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us. -- Peter Senge
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration. -- Dalai Lama
After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only. -- Koichi Tohei
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section. -- Stephen Kanner
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding. -- Bodhidharma
Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands. -- Raffaella Barker
People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence. -- R. C. Sproul
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. -- Thomas a Kempis
Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essense they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world. -- Hugo Chavez
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. -- Nhat Hanh
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. -- Brian Weiss
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing. -- Paul Davies
Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. -- Joel Coen
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. -- Isaac Newton
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. -- J. Donald Walters
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education. -- Thomas Woods
Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances. -- Dean Ornish
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases. -- Paul Auster
The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. -- John Polkinghorne
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them. -- Alan Ball
Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. -- John Podhoretz
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path. -- Tara Brach
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.' -- Ben Carson
True understanding lies beyond the desert -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
True love is born from understanding. -- Gautama Buddha
Understanding is the key to true knowledge -- Liam Williams
True understanding is the spur of genius -- Ursula K. Le Guin
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true. -- Richard Saul Wurman
True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings. -- Albert Einstein
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. -- Viktor Schauberger
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. -- Voltaire
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. -- Voltaire
Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is. -- Ryan Allis
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas -- Miyamoto Musashi
The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams. -- Samael Aun Weor
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. -- Willie Dixon
All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false. -- Mamur Mustapha
True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. -- Kristine Carlson
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. -- Allan Lokos
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding. -- Meher Baba
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. -- Meryl Streep
The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives. -- David F. Swensen
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. -- Nhat Hanh
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear -- Zhuangzi
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever. -- Donald A. Norman
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path. -- Sivananda
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives. -- Brenda Shoshanna
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso
Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way. -- Sebastian Coe
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form? -- Jeremy Narby
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes. -- Francis Bacon
Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love. -- Nhat Hanh
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. -- Ted Dekker
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state. -- Ian Gardner
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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