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Births

• 1897 - Gene Tunney
• 1869 - Robbie Ross
• 1947 - Jacki Weaver
• 1959 - Julian Peter McDonald Clary
• 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• 2005 - Graham Kennedy
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• You have to know the past to understand the present.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in History, Past

  Tags in Understanding

• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Understanding, Imagination, Company, Matter

• The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Limitations, Understanding, Criticism

• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked — as I am surprisingly often — why I bother to get up in the mornings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Life, Nature

  Tags in School, Understanding, Meaning

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intuition, Writers And Writing, Understanding, Creativity

• Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

  Edward Albert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prayers, Understanding, Courage

• I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Limitations, Understanding, Mystery, Mind

• When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears — when you give your whole attention to it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Attention, Understanding, Listening, Mind

• If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.

  Emerson M. Pugh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Limitations, School, Understanding, Mind

• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Muscle, Good, Understanding, Mind

• The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

  Alfred Adler

  Topics in Nature, Soul

  Tags in School, Understanding, Human, Mind

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, School, Understanding, Miscellaneous

• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understanding, Forget, Miscellaneous

• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

  Annie Dillard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Gratitude, Questions, Understanding, Mystery

• The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Understanding, Mystery

• I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.

  Gay Hendricks

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Learning, Understanding, Relationships, Community

• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance, Understanding, Communication, Community

• There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understanding, Community

• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Misunderstanding, Accordance, Understanding, Logic

• The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

  Deborah Tannen

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Perception, Understanding, Communication