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
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Lord Chesterfield 
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The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg 
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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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It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.
Prince Andrew 
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It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton 
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I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Laura Dern 
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When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
Marcel Carne 
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If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Alfred P. Sloan 
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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
Mark Rylance 
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