Top 100 Real Understanding Quotes

#1. Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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#2. Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Terry Riley

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#3. To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.

Robert M. Pirsig

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#4. The highest civilizations
the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms
are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.

Pearl S. Buck

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#5. I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

Jean Vanier

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#6. Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States

Barry M. Goldwater

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#7. It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

Anthony Stafford Beer

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#8. He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#9. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

David Amerland

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#10. I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

Phylicia Rashad

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#11. So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don't really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#12. Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Jayni Chase

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#13. Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab ...

Wendy Mogel

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#14. No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.

Roger Fry

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#15. Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them.

Lorrie Moore

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#16. Real Understanding manifests itself as spontaneous natural and simple action, free of the depressing process of choice, pure without indecisions of any type.

Samael Aun Weor

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#17. Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

Pablo Casals

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#18. Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

Robert M. Pirsig

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#19. The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

Anthony Bourdain

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#20. When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.

Mooji

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#21. Hospitality is a word used to describe a human behavior that has the potential to bring about real-understanding among people who do not share a common faith or culture.

Martin E. Marty

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#22. Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Jean Piaget

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#23. If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

Mike Lowry

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#24. The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

Helen Mirren

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#25. The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.

Helen Mirren

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#26. The Wall Street firm became a black box. The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished.

Michael Lewis

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#27. Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

James Mattis

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#28. Mental understanding cannot change our life, unless it becomes real understanding.

Sunday Adelaja

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#29. Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

Samael Aun Weor

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#30. That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.

Marcus Aurelius

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#31. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#32. He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust.

Paul David Tripp

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#33. That's how it goes. Meetings in rooms. A little diplomacy, a little give and take, a promise here, an understanding there. That's how real revolutions happen.

Terry Pratchett

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#34. I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations ... I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea.

Matisyahu

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#35. The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

Richard Louv

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#36. Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth.

Sunday Adelaja

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#37. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.

Zarina Bibi

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#38. I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Tim Burton

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#39. Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique ... and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity - a bookish triumvirate.

Briar Kit Esme

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#40. 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

Eddi Reader

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#41. Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies.

Nick Harkaway

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#42. How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

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#43. It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

Charles Duhigg

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#44. It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

Swami Muktananda

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#45. It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

Hillary Clinton

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#46. Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

David Hume

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#47. Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.

Jane Austen

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#48. Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

Tina Brown

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#49. The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

Wallis Simpson

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#50. Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That's life. That's human nature.

Sharon Salzberg

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#51. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

Richard Pascale

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#52. If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.

Russell Page

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#53. Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

James Rachels

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#54. [ ... ] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.

William Deresiewicz

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#55. Real friendship is when people show their understanding and support towards your dreams and visions. When they are willing to stand by you through thick and thin when you start to take practical steps towards your dreams.

Euginia Herlihy

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#56. When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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#57. People say:
'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

Ernst F. Schumacher

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#58. I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Linda Grant

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#59. To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

Noam Chomsky

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#60. You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#61. Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.

William Thurston

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#62. Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Henry Reed

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#63. The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Richard P. Feynman

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#64. I would watch Wizard of Oz, like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

Zooey Deschanel

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#65. Love is a strange creature one thinks one has a grasp on and understanding of, only to discover later that it was only the barest taste of the real thing.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#66. If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#67. There was a beat of perfect completeness, a moment where I felt as if I could pluck each and every atom out of the air, where magic and God and something sweetly beyond complete understanding was real, completely real.

Sierra Simone

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#68. This is not real suffering, she tells herself. this is only a matter of reprogramming her picture of the future. Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary.

Anthony Doerr

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#69. Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

Martha Beck

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#70. Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding,

J. Christopher Stevens

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#71. When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance - for ourselves, as well as others - over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we've been hurt to the core. But that doesn't mean we ever forget.

Sharon Salzberg

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#72. Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Aaron Swartz

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#73. Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#74. Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#75. Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#76. A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#77. We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel ... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#78. [Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Edward O. Wilson

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#79. If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure.

Andrew Solomon

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#80. You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty.

Debasish Mridha

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#81. A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories ... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Aaron Huey

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#82. Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.

Thomas Woods

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#83. To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.

Confucius

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#84. I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

LaToya Jackson

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#85. My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Ray Lewis

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#86. What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?

Kobo Abe

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#87. People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

Michael Nesmith

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#88. Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

Simone Weil

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#89. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert

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#90. A real relationship's based on trust and understanding, the sharing of little things. Moments of happiness and laughter. Realising you've both just had the same thought, or were about to say the same thing.

Peter May

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#91. If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

Alex Haley

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#92. No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

Avi Arad

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#93. I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce

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#94. I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

S.J. Rozan

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#95. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Mao Zedong

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#96. I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.

Michelle Obama

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#97. It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Hanif Kureishi

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#98. Real communication occurs ... when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person's point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about.

Carl Rogers

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#99. The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Michael Sandel

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#100. If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts - soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching.

Dennis J. Bennett

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