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Quotes About Understanding

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
~ Hugh Prather
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.
~ Julianne Moore
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.
~ Marcus Eremita
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.
~ Matt Goldman
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
~ May Sarton
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
~ PO BRONSON
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
~ Roberto Calasso
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
~ Spalding Gray
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
~ Stephen Covey
Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.
~ Thomas Leonard
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.
~ Thomas Traherne
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
~ Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
~ Wayne Dyer
Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
~ William Feather
Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
~ William Penn
The things that make us happy make us wise.
~ John Crowley