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Letter "U" » understanding
«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
almost, draw, extinguish, extinguishes, extinguishing, inadvisable, meaning, perfect, poetry, understanding, usually
«Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Judgement,
Psychology,
Self awareness,
Understanding
| Keywords:
irritate, irritated, irritates, lead, understanding
«Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Character,
Criticism,
Understanding
| Keywords:
character, complain, condemn, condemning, control, criticize, criticizes, fool, forgiving, self, self control, takes, understanding, understandings
«A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism»
«A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them»
Author: Ninon de Lenclos
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
by choice, choice, Choicer, given, givens, loving, understanding, understandings, women
«Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.»
«Friendship is love with understanding»
«Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Dreams,
Life,
Limits
| Keywords:
already, find out, fly, limitation, show, telling, Telling You, To Fly, understanding
«But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.»
«Conceit is incompatible with understanding»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conceit
| Keywords:
conceit, conceits, incompatible, understanding, with conceit
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