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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."

Burke, James E. on understanding
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"No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy."

Carlyle, Thomas on understanding
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"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on understanding
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"The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

Dyer, Wayne on understanding
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"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on understanding    Share

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Eschenbach, Marie E. on understanding
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"The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands."

Kopp, Sheldon on understanding    Share

"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on understanding
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"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days."

Lao-Tzu on understanding
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"Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be."

Peale, Norman Vincent on understanding
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"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Saying, Zen on understanding
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"We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!"

Thoreau, Henry David on understanding    Share

"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on understanding
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"Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request."

Unknown, Source on understanding    Share

"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap."

Ozick, Cynthia on madness
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

Miller, Henry on madness
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."

Dahlberg, Edward on madness    Share

"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --"

Dickinson, Emily on madness
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"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"

Duncan, Isadora on madness
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"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

Laing, R. D. on madness
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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."

Laing, R. D. on madness
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"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."

Pound, Ezra on madness    Share

"It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?"

Serge, Victor on madness    Share

"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"

Shaw, George Bernard on madness
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

Barrett, Ethel on individuality
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

Campell, Joseph on individuality
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"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death."

Conrad, Peter on individuality    Share

"Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization."

Crane, Frederick E. on individuality    Share

"Our expenses are all for conformity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on individuality    Share

"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on individuality
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"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

Frost, Robert on individuality    Share

"It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia."

Hoffer, Eric on individuality    Share

"The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on individuality    Share

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."

Huxley, Aldous on individuality    Share

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