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Ambrose Bierce: “Egotist, noun. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Socrates: “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
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Annie Dillard: “Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.
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Marge Piercy: “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Baruch Spinoza: “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Pearl Bailey: “You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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Marie Curie: “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Marshall Rosenberg: “We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
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Sydney J. Harris: “The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
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Joseph Jaworski: “Leadership is about creating, day by day, a domain in which we and those around us continually deepen our understanding of reality and are able to participate in shaping the future. This, then, is the deeper territory of leadership -- collectively 'listening to what is wanting to emerge in the world, and then having the courage to do what is required.'
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Carl Sagan: “Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Ernesto Cardenal: “All human eyes have longing in them.
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David Augsburger: “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
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Dee Hock: “We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.
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Wayne Dyer: “The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
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Michael Lerner: “Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.
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Dale Carnegie: “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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Marshall Rosenberg: “Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Francis Bacon: “The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Michel de Montaigne: “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Talmud: “We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
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Henry David Thoreau: “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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Sigmund Freud: “Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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Gay Hendricks: “I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: “When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears -- when you give your whole attention to it.
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Immanuel Kant: “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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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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Leo Tolstoy: “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
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