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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.
Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.
Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.
I'm going to have sex when it feels right but at the moment ? I just don't feel ready, Justin is very understanding.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life.
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.
Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.
The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.
A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.