Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Kissing Quotes, Understanding Quotes

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

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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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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.

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There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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

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I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

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

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Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

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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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