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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
Mahatma Gandhi
Bonds are founded on four fundamentals: esteem, perception, toleration and gratitude.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Malcolm X
We need more illumination about each other. Illumination generates comprehension, comprehension generates affection, affection generates forbearance, and forbearance produces harmony.
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There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
John Trudell
Attempting to thrive in a realm that is rapidly diminishing its grasp of humanity.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
Haile Selassie
Learning serves as the gateway to Affection, and Affection in its turn engenders comprehension, and guides one along the course of grand collective accomplishments.
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What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
Saint Francis de Sales
We require a draught of comprehension, an abundance of fondness, and an expanse of forbearance.
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Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.
Subhas Chandra Bose
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Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar
Adi Shankara
Perception can be grasped only with the insight of enlightenment, not just by an academic.
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By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.
Robert Hooke
Through the use of microscopes, there is nothing too insignificant for us to explore; as a result, an unseen realm has been revealed to our comprehension.
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Experience precedes understanding.
Jean Piaget
Comprehension is born of trial.
11.
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
John Henrik Clarke
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To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.
Fela Kuti
To be devout is not by supplication and attendance of religious services. Devotion is the comprehension of the cosmos so that it can be a more desirable habitat to inhabit.
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The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
Khalil Gibran
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.
Bryan Stevenson
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
Our wisdom starts with the senses, advances to comprehension, and culminates in rationality. There is nothing more elevated than rationality.
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Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.
Miyamoto Musashi
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
Jerry Garcia
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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
Jean Piaget
Every time a child is supplied with knowledge they could have deduced themselves, that youngster is prevented from devising it and thus from grasping it utterly.
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Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.
Jean Vanier
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Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
Maria Montessori
Advancement stems from action, not intellectual comprehension.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam
When I desire to comprehend the present or try to prophesy the future, I reflect upon the past.
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Al-Jahiz
We acknowledge that the black populace are the least intellectually equipped and cognizant of humanity, and lack the ability to comprehend the repercussions of their decisions.
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What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
Nikola Tesla
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
Epictetus
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Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
Paula Scher
Be worldly informed, as without knowledge of one's world and culture, communication may be limited.
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Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
Paulo Freire
Assimilating is the act of absorbing knowledge through contemplation, dialogue and introspection.
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Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
Marie Curie
It is essential to expand our knowledge so that we can abate our dread.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
The peak achievement a person can reach is gaining knowledge through comprehension, as comprehension brings liberation.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
Ajahn Chah
Contentment and anguish do not rely upon having little or much wealth, they rely on possessing a correct or erroneous perception in our brain.
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Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.
Arthur W. Pink
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We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.
Kofi Annan
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Who is blameless? Only those that blame no one for aught that is, has been or may be. Only in creating hope, life, understanding, harmony, does one become blameless. For, as you understand, they that would be loved must show themselves lovely; they that would have friends must be a friend to others. For in the manner you treat others, you treat your Lord. Let that light which has aroused you be alive, awakened. Condemn no one. And as you come seeking, know, understand, as you create same in the lives of others so is it reflected in your own.
Edgar Cayce
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How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
Lester B. Pearson
'What good is harmony if people are not familiar with each other and lack mutual understanding?'
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We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone
Shane Koyczan
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
Bruce Schneier
If you assume that tech can eradicate your safety concerns, then you lack comprehension of the issues and the tools.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
Malcolm X
One day, may we all come together in the radiance of comprehension.
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Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Peter Brook
Drama is unveiling; it is challenging; it is opposition and it leads to study, assembly, realization and ultimately to an enlightenment of comprehension.
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Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
Liberation from servitude is accomplished only when an individual begins to comprehend that they would opt for demise rather than living as a servant.
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All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
Ernest Rutherford
'The entirety of physics is either inconceivable or straightforward. It appears impenetrable until comprehended, and then it becomes facile.'
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You can't judge my choices without understanding my reasons.
Kid Cudi
You cannot form an opinion on my decisions without comprehending my motivations.
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Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!
Takeda Shingen
Comprehension is not strength, it is only latent. Utilizing that comprehension is strength. Grasping why and when to utilize that comprehension is sagacity!
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
Thomas Harris
I have no inclination to grasp sheep, only consuming them.
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Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.
Jane Goodall
Encourage us to cultivate admiration for every living creature. Attempt to substitute animosity and insensitivity with insight and sympathy. And fondness.
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I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
Anselm of Canterbury
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
David Attenborough
An appreciation of the environment and its contents is a source of not only tremendous curiosity but immense satisfaction...
48.
Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.
Leighton Meester
All inhabitants share a common experience with regards to housemate conflict.
49.
It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.
Christian Dior
'It is not wealth that makes one stylish: it is knowledge.'
50.
If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.
Willy Brandt
'Wenn ich verkaufe, spreche ich deine Sprache. Wenn ich kaufe, muss ich Deutsch reden.'