T Quotes
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“To understand my posts, you need a higher sense of humor and lower expectations..!!”
“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.”
“To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.”
“To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.”
“To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.”
“To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship
“To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.”
“To understand our emotions is to reclaim authorship over our own story.”
Source: How Deep Is the Wound?: A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain
“To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we are to think about religion and defend it. Theology has some terms and methods of its own, but its fundamental tools are borrowed from philosophy.
The growth of religious fundamentalism and the collapse of religious education mean theology is more urgently needed in universities -- especially Catholic ones -- than ever before.”
Source: God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society
“to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down”
“To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.”
“To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.”
“To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.”
Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“To understand possible means to understand impossible.”
“To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
“To understand reality, you must to some extent change the characteristics of this reality in your mind. Otherwise, the reality can be, in general, incomprehensible in the mind. For that reason, it can be said that the majority lives in illusion, partly, but without even knowing that there can be some kind of fusion of reality with illusion in the mind -- only some are aware of it.”
“To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”
“To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.”
“To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is nothing radical, this notion of things constantly changing, and that the change is not inherently destructive.”
“To understand something is to be delivered of it.”
“To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure.”
“To understand subjectivity in literary awards, think of these competitions as social media platforms and judging panels as their users. A book you submit to a literary award competition is like a post you share on social media—some praise its ideas, others reject them; some find it inspiring, others provoking; tragic to some, laughable to the rest.”
“To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself.”
“To understand surrender is to understand the limits of human ambition and the resilience of the human spirit.”
Source: Theory of Surrender: The Missing Language of Defeat in Political Thought
“To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.”
“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”
Source: Mortals and Others
“To understand the autistic brain is to enter a world shaped by depth, precision, and sensitivity.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life
“To understand the behavior of people as they are in the real world precludes either disillusionment or cynicism. You learn to be realistic in your expectations. You go on using the probables in the eternal struggle to achieve the improbable.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.”
“To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.”
“To understand the dimensions of God, you must live in His realms”
Source: Great Reflections on Success
“To understand the Dreamtime, you must understand that we do not own the land. The land is our mother and she owns and nurtures us.”
Source: White Spirit
“To understand the extreme lengths to which the Sufis were prepared to go in reading esoteric meanings into the quite simple language of their Scriptures, it is necessary to remember that the Koran was committed to memory by all deeply religious men and women, and recited constantly, aloud or in the heart; so that the mystic was in a state of uninterrupted meditation upon the Holy Book. Many passages which would otherwise pass without special notice were therefore bound to arrest their attention, already sufficiently alert, and to quicken their imagination, already fired by the discipline of their austerities and the rigor of their internal life.”
Source: Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
“To understand the importance of free speech is to recognize its role as a catalyst for social change. It empowers individuals to expose injustice, challenge systemic inequities, and rally collective action. The history of progress is intertwined with the stories of those who dared to speak out, pushing against the boundaries of the accepted narrative. Free speech is not a privilege; it is the heartbeat of a society that aspires to equity, justice, and the continual pursuit of a more enlightened future.”
“To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.”
“To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 320km/h, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.”
“To understand the intricacies of life, study the antics of your dreams.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“To understand the journey you have to do the walking.”
“To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.”
“To understand the life better, find a corner and wait there! You will then see that all sorts of things and events will suddenly appear at the corner, as it happens in life!”
“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”
“To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.”
Source: The Edge of the Sea
“To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.”
Source: Asger Jorn
“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”
“To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.”
Source: The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution