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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Time
Master
Understanding
One Thing
Insight
Well
Understands
Same
Same Time
Many
Thing
Things
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus
Love
Understanding
Combination
Involves
Misunderstanding
Unfathomable
Peculiar
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton
Man
Understanding
Imagination
Apprehension
Only
He
True
Understand
False
May
Them
Things
Imagine
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
J. K. Rowling
Good
You
Writing
Will
Important
Understanding
Vocabulary
Give
Good Writing
Like
Most
Most Important Thing
Read
Makes
Important Thing
Did
The Most Important
Much
Your
Thing
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear
Understanding
Controlling
Other
Running
Running Away
About
Rather
Directly
Contact
Come
Suppressing
Learn
How
Escape
Than
Any
Means
Away
Watch
Resistance
Needed
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon
Life
Love
Soul
Peace
Understanding
Believe
Honestly
Claimed
Claiming
Out
Only
Purity
Never
Divinity
Songs
Put
Answer
Answers
Still
Questions
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
Liberty
Men
Understanding
Dangers
Insidious
Well
Without
Well-Meaning
Greatest
Meaning
Zeal
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal
Man
Ego
Understanding
Structure
Wrong
Concept
Demolish
May
Human
Deed
Whole
Eventually
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Nature
Wise
Together
Understanding
Think
Our
Would
About
Supply
Supply Chain
Pieces
How
Fit
Human
Against
Chain
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
Yourself
World
Understanding
Without
Understand
Trying
Use
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Raoul Vaneigem
Positive
Life
Love
Class
Struggle
People
Everyday Life
Understanding
Revolution
Mouth
Everyday
Corpse
Class Struggle
About
Constraints
Talk
Without
Referring
Refusal
Subversive
Explicitly
Who
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison
People
Black
Understanding
Everybody
Else
Totally
About
Bear
Brunt
Annoyed
Contempt
Smiling
Always
Demons
Suddenly
Why
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung
Darkness
Evil
Understanding
Definite
Comprehensible
Does
Cure
Inasmuch
Help
Cope
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering
Great
You
Understanding
About
Something
Between
Know
Knowing
Understand
Lot
Difference
Really
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
Happiness
Friendship
Understanding
Own
Way
More
Mere
True
Principles
Than
Precious
Getting
Situations
Being
Where
Stake
Your
Things
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Food
Words
Light
Mind
Understanding
Awareness
Major
Provide
Create
Things
Two
It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.
Kimora Lee Simmons
You
People
Money
Sometimes
Understanding
Inside
Fabulous
About
Main
Main Thing
Look
Make
How
How Much
How Much Money
Diamonds
Being
Much
Skinny
Many
Thing
Things
I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.
Lois Tilton
Nature
People
Evil
Eye Of The Beholder
Understanding
Own
Creation
Eye
Vampire
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
Merely
Like
Blood
Questions
Beholder
Interest
Really
Who
Sucks
Lives
Save
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey
Spiritual
You
Feeling
Understanding
Control
Down
Religious
Spirit
Take
Come
Until
Within
Begin
Who
Deep
Deep Down
Necessarily
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Angry
Wish
Understanding
Preach
Must
I Wish
Compose
Write
Veins
Sharpened
Well
Pray
Blood
Stirred
Then
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington
Success
Failure
Sometimes
Understanding
Part
Make
Accept
Always
Opposite
Up
Screw
Decisions
Right
Right Decisions
Need
As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, it's important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world.
Elaine Chao
History
Celebrate
Women
World
Key
Better
Remember
Rest
Country
Important
Understanding
Relationships
Our
Month
Promoting
Better Understanding
Between
Role
March
Played
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.
Gerard Depardieu
Good
Great
You
Cooking
Understanding
Nothing
Difficult
Everyone
Between
Chef
Taste
Tastes
Stop
Difference
Realize
Even
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
Goldie Hawn
Life
You
Understanding
Thinking
Everybody
Back
No Turning Back
Becomes
Truly
Question
Clock
Dies
Going
While
Turning
Ages
Aging
Grasp
Helps
Serious
Cognition
Here
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom
Problem
Understanding
Freedom From
Answer
Essential
Desire
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
You
Will
Power
Understanding
Intuitive
Days
Until
Protect
End
Your
Harm
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