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169 quotesIf I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
Friends and Friendship
John Enoch Powell
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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Anger
Proverb
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Politicians and Politics
Dan Quayle
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What we do not understand, we cannot control.
Understanding
Charles Reich
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Irony
Agnes Repplier
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Understanding is a two-way street.
Understanding
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
Admiration
Eleanor Roosevelt
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Arts and Artists
Harold Rosenberg
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Understanding
Jean Rostand
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Modesty
Jean Rostand
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Reputation
Helen Rowland
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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Dignity
George Santayana
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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
Leaders and Leadership
James Schorr
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If you would judge, understand.
Judgment and Judges
Seneca
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Riches
George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Forgiveness
George Bernard Shaw
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Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Understanding
Homer Simpson
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Truth
W. Clement Stone
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
Kindness
Henry David Thoreau
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love
Count Leo Tolstoy
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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Conceit
Count Leo Tolstoy
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Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Understanding
Count Leo Tolstoy
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Obscurity
Lionel Trilling
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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
Conformity
Ivan Turgenev
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun