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“The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.”

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“If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .”

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Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.”

Eye Truth Understanding Truth Is Ears

Book:The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Source: The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

“Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.”

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Book:Select essays on the belles lettres

Source: Select essays on the belles lettres

“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”

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Book:The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”

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Author:Hypatia

“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”

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Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“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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Book:You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities

Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities

“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”

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Author:W. Clement Stone

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

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Book:1984

Source: 1984

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

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Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.”

Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

“You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".”

“No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.”

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Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

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