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Quote 3153
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.Showing Quotes on understanding
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.Showing Quotes on understanding
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.Showing Quotes on understanding
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to othersShowing Quotes on understanding
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselvesShowing Quotes on understanding
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sidesShowing Quotes on understanding
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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move themShowing Quotes on understanding
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What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either partyShowing Quotes on understanding
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.Showing Quotes on understanding
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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boyShowing Quotes on understanding
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loafShowing Quotes on understanding
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problemShowing Quotes on understanding
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any starShowing Quotes on understanding
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingShowing Quotes on understanding
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principleShowing Quotes on understanding
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonablyShowing Quotes on understanding
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There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothingShowing Quotes on understanding
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understandShowing Quotes on understanding
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not freeShowing Quotes on understanding
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayShowing Quotes on understanding
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on understanding
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophersShowing Quotes on understanding
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believedShowing Quotes on understanding
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the otherShowing Quotes on understanding
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriageShowing Quotes on understanding
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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit itShowing Quotes on understanding
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloudShowing Quotes on understanding
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned womenShowing Quotes on understanding
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sidesShowing Quotes on understanding
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear lessShowing Quotes on understanding
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without themShowing Quotes on understanding
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.Showing Quotes on understanding
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.Showing Quotes on understanding
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Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.Showing Quotes on understanding
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If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfullyShowing Quotes on understanding
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving anotherShowing Quotes on understanding
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sicknessShowing Quotes on understanding
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understandingShowing Quotes on understanding
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our heartsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything betterShowing Quotes on understanding
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sellShowing Quotes on understanding
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income taxShowing Quotes on understanding
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soonShowing Quotes on understanding
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on understanding
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What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Showing Quotes on understanding
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. UnderstandShowing Quotes on understanding
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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his wakingShowing Quotes on understanding
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The language of friendship is not words but meaningsShowing Quotes on understanding
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothingShowing Quotes on understanding
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understandShowing Quotes on understanding
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husbandShowing Quotes on understanding
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Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreamsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shacklesShowing Quotes on understanding
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If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourselfShowing Quotes on understanding
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely differentShowing Quotes on understanding
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simplerShowing Quotes on understanding
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover themShowing Quotes on understanding
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands itShowing Quotes on understanding
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teachShowing Quotes on understanding
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I want to know His thoughts, the rest are detailsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Everything that I understand, I understand only because I loveShowing Quotes on understanding
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not loveShowing Quotes on understanding
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In youth we learn; in age we understandShowing Quotes on understanding
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmotherShowing Quotes on understanding
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understandShowing Quotes on understanding
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than loveShowing Quotes on understanding
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A friend is a second self.Showing Quotes on understanding
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