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«You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.»
«Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.»
Author: Beca Lewis
(Accountant, Dancer, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Spiritual mentor, Writer)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
first, second, seconded, understand, understood, yearn, yearned
«You have to know the past to understand the present.»
«When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless»
«Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
helpless, misunderstanding, serves
«When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it»
«Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Understanding,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
industry, Old Road, travelling
«When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.»
«Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
hear, Hear say, loudly, saying, speaks, very loudly
«You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Children,
Family,
Journey,
People,
Understanding
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers
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