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Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
Language is the source of misunderstandings.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.: Doris Lessing
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.: H. H. Williams
Much learning does not teach understanding.: Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.: Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.: Marvin Minsky
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.: Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.: Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)


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