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Quotes About Understanding

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
~ Pat Williams
I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.
~ Norman Reedus
You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.
~ Rumi
Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it
~ Robert Kiyosaki
There are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later.
~ Harry Mathews
There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.
~ Maria V. Snyder
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
~ Albert Einstein
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
~ Charles Rosin
We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.
~ Henning Mankell
You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!
~ Stephen Colbert
When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.
~ Takuan Soho
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
~ Ken Wilber
Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.
~ Rita Zahara
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
~ Gioachino Rossini
Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'
~ Werner Heisenberg
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
~ Kate Millett
The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
~ Imelda Marcos
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
~ Alan W. Watts
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
~ Thomas Merton
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
~ Ashley Montagu
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
~ Lena Horne
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
~ Fernand Braudel