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Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. — © Philip Yancey

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey
American - Author
Born: 1949

It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding is achieved, especially between writer and reader. It's miraculous.

Ken Liu

Ken Liu

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

Austin Farrer

Austin Farrer

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Eric Greitens

Eric Greitens

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

Anthony Kennedy

Anthony Kennedy

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

Kurt Masur

Kurt Masur

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti

we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can give it to another. When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas.

Tae Yun Kim

Tae Yun Kim

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

David Elkind

David Elkind

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