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Famous Understanding Quotes

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A list of the best understanding quotes and sayings about understanding, including the names of each speaker or author. This list is arranged by the most famous understanding quotes or those best known as top quotes relevant to understanding. The famous lines about understanding are ranked by popularity with information regarding where the famous understanding quote was originally heard, performed or written. Dowvote the items you don't like and upvote the ones you do. The order changes depending on votes. This list includes notable understanding quotes by various authors, writers, playwrights, speakers, politicians, athletes, poets, and more. Vote on your favorites so that the greatest understanding quotes rise to the top, as the order of the list changes dynamically based on votes. Don't let your favorite understanding sayings get to the bottom of the list. (62 Items)
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    A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

    Henry James
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    Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

    Samuel Johnson
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    If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

    Carl Jung
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    A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

    Franz Kafka
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    There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

    Charles Kettering
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    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.

    Søren Kierkegaard
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    Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

    Laozi
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    Folks never understand the folks they hate.

    James Russell Lowell
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    To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

    John Stuart Mill
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    Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

    Norman Vincent Peale
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    Understanding is a two-way street.

    Eleanor Roosevelt
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    "There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint."

    Janet Morris
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    1. Madelene Hellner
      Famous Understanding Quotes at 9/29/2012 10:30 AM
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