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Quotes About Understanding

truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.
~ Naomi Novik
A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved," although it does "tell us a good deal about those who hold it."19
~ Naomi Oreskes
Global warming is a big problem, and to solve it we have to stop listening to disinformation. We have to pay attention to our science and harness the power of our engineering. Rome may not be burning, but Greenland is melting, and we are still fiddling. We all need a better understanding of what science really is, how to recognize real science when we see it, and how to separate it from the garbage.
~ Naomi Oreskes
Outside their domains of expertise, scientists may be no more well informed than ordinary people. Indeed, they may be less so as their intense training in one area can lead them to be undereducated in others.
~ Naomi Oreskes
Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth.
~ Naomi Ragen
We cannot understand, but that doesn't mean our just and loving God doesn't have His reasons. If we have faith, every experience we undergo in life, good or bad, will bring us closer to Him.
~ Naomi Ragen
fact that she couldn't understand herself.
~ Naomi Ragen
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Second life lesson, kid: always know what you're getting yourself into.
~ Unknown
I know you're lonely, Mama," he whispers, his voice half-choked with sleep. "And sometimes… so am I.
~ Unknown
closed. My heart squeezes. "I love you, too, Bug." You have no idea
~ Unknown
une science indigeste?
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, in general, are but great children.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A true man hates no one.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Exista lucruri care nu se scriu niciodata!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
~ Napoleon Hill
The understanding table of enlightenment and the ideas of which solidifies the two sides of left and right to dictate what's true and what's false! To understand the meaning of understanding takes a lot more listening than speaking!!
~ Unknown
Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being.
~ Unknown
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb