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Understanding Quotes

"In case of dissension never dare to judge till you've heard the other side"
Euripides
"Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they understand everything too soon"
Alexander Pope
"The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other souls"
George Sand
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak"
John Quincy Adams
"In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do"
John Quincy Adams
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong"
Carl Jung
"I don't have to tell you that reality is out there"
Stephen Colbert
"The further one goes, the less one knows"
Laozi
"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell
"The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick."
Walter Benjamin
"You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable "
Princess Diana
"Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand."
Maria Montessori
"The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child."
Maria Montessori
"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
Alan Watts
"Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it."
Alan Watts
"Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash."
Pope Francis
"An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy"
Primo Levi
"The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace"
Chinua Achebe
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds"
George Santayana
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"
George Santayana
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