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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. -- Carlos Fuentes
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. -- Jeff Bezos
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. -- Lawrence Hill
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. -- Tian Dayton
Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system. -- Rebecca Saxe
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality. -- Ian Cohen
Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams.....their demons -- Eliza Granville
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right? -- Edward Boyden
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. -- Ted Allen
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals. -- Robert Lanza
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. -- Eric Hoffer
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. -- Sarah Gadon
You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key. -- Rita Ora
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. -- Katherine Mansfield
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. -- Chin-Ning Chu
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. -- Paul D. Boyer
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -- John Locke
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
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. -- Umberto Eco
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works. -- Nicholas Stern
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. -- John Searle
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! -- Richard P. Feynman
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. -- Tom Freston
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. -- Richard Eyre
And without understanding, could each properly love the other? -- Anita Brookner
I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings. -- E. Lockhart
Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent. -- Warren Farrell
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. -- Joseph Glanvill
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. -- Jose Saramago
Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better. -- Neymar
To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding. -- John Woolman
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. -- Jerome Bruner
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention. -- Richard L. Evans
Peace is possible with understanding of each other.Understanding is love for one another. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other. -- Anne Tyler
...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world.... -- Isabella Koldras
Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other. -- Max de Pree
We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created. -- Audre Lorde
You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have. -- Chath Piersath
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. -- Franz Kafka
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. -- Malcolm X
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. -- Susan Polis Schutz
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men. -- John Dryden
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. -- Ray Kurzweil
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted -- Carl Sandburg
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other? -- Lester B. Pearson
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. -- Sarah Fielding
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic. -- Carlos Castaneda
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. -- Jean Piaget
Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind"a mutual understanding of each other. I haven't felt this way in forever. -- Simone Elkeles
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with. -- Joshua Homme
No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content. -- Howard Stringer
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience. -- Paul Simon
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. -- Stephen Gaskin
Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own. -- Wilferd Peterson
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own. -- Jim Rohn
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all. -- Gerald R. Ford
I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia. -- Ameen Rihani
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. -- Rebecca Solnit
Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view. -- John C. Maxwell
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. -- Aga Khan IV
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. -- Simone de Beauvoir
We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding. -- Jeppe Hein
To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor. -- Leo Buscaglia
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. -- Stephen Covey
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
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell -- Heinz Kohut
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. -- Jamie Lidell
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. -- Richard P. Feynman
Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire. -- Edmund White
The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it. -- James Hansen
To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other. -- Kenneth Waltz
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are. -- Thomas Merton
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well. -- Phylicia Rashad
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. -- Kevin Kelly
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. -- Ellen Douglas
It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people. -- Joe Rogan
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And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future. -- Henry Taube
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. -- Richard Benjamin
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. -- John Dewey
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
The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed. -- Nikki Rowe

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