"I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."

Diana, Princess of Wales 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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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on understanding
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"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

Giovanni, Nikki on understanding
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

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

Kafka, Franz on understanding
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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."

Kierkegaard, Søren on understanding
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"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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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

Lee, Harper on understanding
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"To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman."

Mill, John Stuart on understanding
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"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talent
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"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on talent   

"He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better."

Nicklaus, Jack on talent   

"The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on talent   

"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."

Ritt, Martin on talent   

"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful."

Chomsky, Noam on nature   

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."

Laing, R. D. on nature   

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hypocrisy
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

Cooley, Charles Horton on hypocrisy   

"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."

Kerr, Jean on hypocrisy
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

Einstein, Albert on intuition
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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

Einstein, Albert on knowledge
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Einstein, Albert on opposition
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"Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent."

Horace on consistency   

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."

Huxley, Aldous on consistency
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"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."

Cioran, E. M. on torture   

"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."

Eco, Umberto on torture
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"The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

Jung, Carl on torture
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"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

Eliot, George on pity   

"The good man is the friend of all living things."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world."

Aughey, John H. on sensuality
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"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

Updike, John on sex
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"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Ustinov, Peter on sex
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"Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well."

Shaw, George Bernard on intentions