Understanding Quotes - Page 23

• Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Talent, Poet

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• The more you come to know the Bible - both in reading it extensively and also meditating on it deeply - the more integrated your understanding of all of life will be. And this means that there will be fewer steps between what you are doing at work and sharing your faith in Christ.

  Mark Dever

  Reading, Mean, Steps

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Cutting, Race

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.

  Charles Koch

  America, People, Principles

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

  Charles Koch

  Trying, Fiber, Civility

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A worldview is simply someone's relatively organized understanding of what the world is actually like.

  Greg Koukl

  World, Worldview, Organized

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.

  Adam Frank

  Law, Atoms, Able

  "Doctor Strange Advisor Explains the Science Behind Marvel's Multiverse". Interview with Screenrant, screenrant.com. March 2, 2017.

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• As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

  Margaret Hoover

  Glasses, Appreciate, Half

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.

  Reid Hoffman

  Ongoing, Care, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

  Clint Eastwood

  Names, Calling

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Teacher, Race, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you think about it, before Darwin, we hadn't the foggiest idea of how we came into being. Now we do. It's still such an exciting idea that it is well worth everybody understanding it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the most special thing about the chemistry is the intimate understanding of how to make each other laugh. At the end of the day, in order to portray a genuine relationship on camera, that's one of the most fundamental things that has to occur.

  Drake Doremus

  Thinking, Order, Laughing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

  David Oyelowo

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Erode

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Donald Trump represents not the lobbyists, not the elected officials, not the establishment types. These are people that have nothing to do with government; they don't work there; they have much taken from them by government. They get very, very little of it back. And that is, I think, a good point in understanding Trump's popularity and who it is that's supporting him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you're seeing.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Communication, Bridges, Sound

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Men, Self

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, People, India

  Source: www.pakistantoday.com.pk

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• The writer is the midwife of understanding.

  Arundhati Roy

  Midwife

  Source: progressive.org

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• I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the first year we have had in five hundred years. This is thanks to the struggle of many untitled, unnamed indigenous brothers who, without understanding international law, patiently walked the corridors asking for some time. Thanks to them this international year has been declared.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Brother, Struggle, Years

  Source: www.indians.org

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• When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Army, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried. And when public officials talk about alternative facts, people who have devoted their careers to trying to uncover facts are dismayed.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Appreciation, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Fiction, Results

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, Challenges, Sin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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