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Understanding Quotes

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home"
John Stuart Mill
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance"
Francis of Assisi
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs"
Dante Alighieri
"A word to the wise is infuriating"
Hunter S. Thompson
"I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing"
Hunter S. Thompson
"To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life."
Henry James
"You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it."
Bill Watterson
"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction."
Bill Watterson
"Trust that there is more than one way to see something. Trust that there is more than one way to be"
Mary Anne Radmacher
"The best way to help people change is to help them understand who they are, how they work, and why their work matters"
Jacqueline Novogratz
"He said, 'It's all in your head,' and I said, 'So's everything,' but he didn't get it"
Fiona Apple
"Science is the poetry of reality."
Richard Dawkins
"The more you know, the sadder you get."
Stephen Colbert
"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be."
Leo Tolstoy
"Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?"
Leo Tolstoy
"Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom"
Will Durant
"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind."
Brene Brown
"The more you know, the more you see."
Aldous Huxley
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