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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, Notes on Pacifism
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
SEAMUS HEANEY, This Week magazine, Apr. 15, 2004
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
NICHOLAS BLACK ELK, The Sacred Pipe
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
A Jedi gains power through understanding and a Sith gains understanding through power.
PALPATINE, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
I think that hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Forward to Sweet Bird of Youth
The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
CHINUA ACHEBE, The Atlantic Online, Aug. 2, 2000
- The circle of our understanding
- Is a very restricted area.
T. S. ELIOT, The Family Reunion
Every man hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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