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

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about intelligence

I say with all frankness and I must confess that my experience as a poet helped me a lot for understanding the poetry of others. Poetic experience, successful or not, has served me and serve me still for understanding the meaning of poetry in...

Quote by Ion Pop about poetry, experience, poets

If for understanding someone you need to listen patiently his or her story, for understanding an interpreter means listening to his music.

Quote by Madalina Manole about music, need, contentment

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about talent, lie, genius, action, imagination, reason, being

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Quote by Edward Abbey about science

Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and understanding of a writer's mood, but, truly, it takes one to know one.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Quote by Richard Bach about limits, eyes, contentment, faith

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about mentality, army, things, people, contentment

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Quote by Francis Bacon about nature

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Quote by Kathy Acker about bad luck, rightness, bad, things

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Quote by Michael Bolton about intention

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

Quote by Prince Andrew about nation, people, contentment

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about aptitude, genius, imagination, reason

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Quote by Albert Camus about bad, ignorance, world, good, good luck

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

Quote by Princess Diana about emotions, dream, people

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Quote by Harold Evans

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about hope

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between...

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation, success

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

Quote by Franz Kafka about beginning, wish, death

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Quote by Franz Kafka about philosophy, astrology, beginning, wish, death