Top Understanding Quotes
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
Christine de Pisan
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
Willard Libby 
Harry S. Truman 
Ma Rainey 
A. E. Housman 
Ralph Ellison 
Chris Van Hollen 
Henry Taube 
Norman Vincent Peale All Understanding Quotes
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim 
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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
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Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
Bede Griffiths
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Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
Rick Larsen
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
Paul Ricoeur
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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
Wynton Marsalis
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham
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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 G. Simpson
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Popular Understanding Authors
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