Alain de Botton Quotes, Understanding Quotes, Laziness Quotes

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

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Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

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We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

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When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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USA Today hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

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Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

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If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

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Understanding is the reward of faith.

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