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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.

A. E. Housman
understandingpoetryperfect

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

A. H. Almaas
careersunderstandingspiritual

We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we’re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.

A. H. Almaas
and-loveunderstandingneeds

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

A. Theodore Tuttle
fatherhoodunderstandingaction

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Aaron Huey
understandingrealthinking

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Aaron Swartz
curriculumunderstandingreal

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Aaron Swartz
qualityunderstandinghumility
Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact o... by Aaron Tveit

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

Aaron Tveit
catunderstanding

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

Abbas Kiarostami
curiosityunderstandingpeople

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

Abdul Kalam
issuesunderstandingviews

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Abdullah ibn Mubarak
islamicunderstandingwisdom

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Abdullah Ibrahim
spaceunderstandingself

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
understandingwonderlying

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
rolesunderstandingworld

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Abraham Lincoln
wifeunderstandingwant
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand... by Abraham Pais

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Abraham Pais
understandingdiscoveryscience

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

Adam Duritz
connectionsunderstandingpeople

I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.

Adam Frank
atomsunderstandinglaw

We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

Adam Phillips
psychologyunderstandingmother
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, no... by Adi Shankara

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

Adi Shankara
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