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Understanding Quotes

"When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself"
Wayne Dyer
"Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
George Bernard Shaw
"Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth"
Anne Sexton
"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it."
Pope Francis
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"
Khalil Gibran
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"
Marcel Proust
"Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is."
Jorge Luis Borges
"In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity"
Saint Augustine
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
Plato
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Plato
"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it"
George Carlin
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends"
David Hume
"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."
Alain de Botton
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