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Quotes about Understanding

Charlotte." No, no, no. "Dixie, wait, listen to me—
— Rachel Hauck
Love is vast, rich, textured. If you limit yourself to only romantic love, you will never love well.
— Rachel Hauck
Everyone, everything, needed love.
— Rachel Hauck
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson