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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.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 3152
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 3108
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2946
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to othersby: John LockeShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2911
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 themselvesby: John LockeShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2811
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sidesby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2802
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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Quote 2740
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 partyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2653
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.Showing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2570
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boyShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2566
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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Quote 2555
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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Quote 2546
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any starShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2540
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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Quote 2430
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principleby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2335
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonablyShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2305
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothingby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2303
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understandby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2245
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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Quote 2232
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2191
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2186
Most mothers are instinctive philosophersShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 2124
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believedby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1960
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the otherby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1954
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriageby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1821
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit itby: Jules RenardShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1723
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloudby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1698
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned womenShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1682
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sidesby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1657
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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Quote 1577
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without themShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1570
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.Showing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1445
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.Showing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1382
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.Showing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1333
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfullyby: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1305
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving anotherby: Jean PaulShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1268
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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Quote 1228
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understandingShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1212
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our heartsby: William HazlittShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1176
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything betterby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1159
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sellby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1157
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income taxby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1136
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soonby: Alexander PopeShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1116
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1109
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.by: Isadora DuncanShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 1034
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. UnderstandShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 995
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his wakingby: Margaret FullerShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 964
The language of friendship is not words but meaningsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 957
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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Quote 853
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understandShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 798
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husbandShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 788
Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreamsShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 779
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shacklesShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 509
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourselfby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 484
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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Quote 411
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simplerby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 367
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover themby: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 341
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands itby: HomerShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 322
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teachby: AristotleShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 315
I want to know His thoughts, the rest are detailsby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 294
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I loveby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 292
Never go on trips with anyone you do not loveShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 278
In youth we learn; in age we understandShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 261
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmotherby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 198
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understandby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on understanding
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Quote 164
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.by: AristotleShowing Quotes on understanding
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