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Quotes About Understanding

One of the nicest gifts we can give the person we're sharing our lives with is the support and time to pursue his/her passion — even if we don't fully understand it.
~ Unknown
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
~ Mary MacLane
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
~ Mary Martin
No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.
~ Mary Matalin
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
~ Mary McCarthy
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
~ Mary McCarthy
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
~ Mary McCarthy
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Jessamy stayed behind, angry that Alistair seemed not to understand how important it was to her to have their own home. For years they had had to meet in secret until her divorce came through from Fabian Montague, her former husband. These were years during which Romaine had known Alistair as her uncle, while she was really his child. Why could he not understand her need for them to be in their own home, not in a busy dispensary-cum-hospital, where there would be sick and dying people?
~ Unknown
friend girl
~ Unknown
The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.
~ Unknown
The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
~ Mary Oliver
We may be heartened by our sojourns on Sinai, but no man may live his life in the clouds. And what does pragmatism mean if not just this? We can only, as James told us again and again, understand the collective and distributive by living. Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.
~ Mary Parker Follett
constantly met in Russian
~ Unknown
leaders in many companies believe that developers should not talk to customers because this is a waste of valuable developer time.
~ Unknown
they play fast and loose with both historical fact and traditional religious interpretation in order to understand their past as they believe it must be understood
~ Unknown
Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
~ Mary Rakow
Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.
~ Mary Rakow
Time, on its own, heals nothing.
~ Mary Rakow
For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There
~ Mary Renault
If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.
~ Mary Renault
You may think I have been rather quick to decide I am in love. But he is a clear kind of person, about whom one has to think clearly.
~ Mary Renault
Apollo, who understands all mysteries, says also, "Nothing too much." He is knowledge, Theseus; but She is what he knows.
~ Mary Renault