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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Dwight L. Moody All Understanding Quotes
I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
Alton Brown 
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
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The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Johan Huizinga
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Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
Thomas Willis
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R. D. Laing
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Marian Anderson
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