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| We hate the kindness which we understand. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. |
| by Soren Kierkegaard |
| In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. |
| by Baba Dioum |
| Kindness is a language the dumb canspeak and the deaf can hear and understand. |
| by Christian Nestell Bovee |
| The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. |
| by Cleveland Amory |
| Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. |
| by Margaret Fuller |
| It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. |
| by Joseph Joubert |
| An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. |
| by Nagarjuna |
| Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. |
| by Quentin Crisp |
| In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. |
| by Douglas MacArthur |
| If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all... |
| by Anon. |
| You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. |
| by Albert Einstein |
| Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. |
| by Goncourt |
| There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate who they are accustomed to look down upon. |
| by John Stuart Mill |
| To understand a holy unity, examine the flame rising from a candle. We see at first two kinds of light, one glistening white and one blue or black. The white light is above and rises in a straight line, the blue or black light is beneath and appears to be the source of the white; yet the two lights are so closely united they form one single flame. But the source formed by the blue or black light is, in turn, attached to the wick under it. The white light never changes, it always remains white; but several shades are distinguishable in the lower light. Moreover, the lower light moves in two opposite directions; above, it is connected to the white light, and below, it is attached to the burning matter; this matter continually consumes itself and rises toward the upper light. It is thus that all that is, reunites with the one unity. |
| by Zohar |
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