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  • What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him. -- Allen W. Wood
  • Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. -- George Gaylord Simpson
  • Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are. -- Margaret Mahy
  • I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me. -- Kevin P. Ryan
  • Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. -- William Adams
  • When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. -- Thornton Wilder
  • My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff. -- Mary Barra
  • The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven. -- Michele Bachmann
  • The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. -- Afrika Bambaataa
  • Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. -- Stephen Breyer
  • Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him. -- Hayao Miyazaki
  • Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves. -- Mahesh Babu
  • A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -- Okakura Kakuzo
  • People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind. -- Elizabeth Lowell
  • Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. -- Antonio Porchia
  • The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth. -- Lester Levenson
  • A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • How do we make the Lord's ways our ways? I believe we begin by learning of Him and praying for understanding. -- Neill F. Marriott
  • You accidentally punched him? Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckleI'm not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing. -- Michael J. Sullivan
  • Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path. -- Sivananda
  • It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied. -- Lauryn Williams
  • You accidentally punched him?" Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. "I'm not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing. -- Michael J. Sullivan
  • When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. -- John Steinbeck
  • By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him. -- Rajneesh
  • And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions. -- Jay Kesler
  • Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -- Erich Fromm
  • Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. -- Anonymous
  • A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
  • Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him. -- Cassandra Clare
  • If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me. -- Roland Barthes
  • Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect. -- Michael Fox
  • He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. -- Gene Hill
  • We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him? -- Confucius
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