Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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Silence
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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world. – Medard Boss

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I understand peoples suffering, peoples pain, more than you will every know yourself. – Princess of Wales Diana

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To understand is to perceive patterns. – Sir Isaiah Berlin

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Man know much more than he understands. – Alfred Adler

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