"Man know much more than he understands."

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"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

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"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Understanding
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."

Baudelaire, Charles on Understanding
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"To understand is to perceive patterns."

Berlin, Sir Isaiah on Understanding
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"Understanding brings control."

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"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."

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"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

Buck, Pearl S. on Understanding
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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."

Burke, James E. on Understanding
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"A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide."

Butler, Samuel on Understanding
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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."

Carlyle, Thomas on Understanding
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"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Understanding
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Understanding
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"It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything."

Coty, Rene on Understanding
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"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

Covey, Stephen R. on Understanding
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"Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on Understanding
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on Understanding
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"I started out with nothing. I still have most of it."

Davis, Michael on Understanding
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"I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."

Diana, Princess of Wales on Understanding
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"I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself."

Diana, Princess of Wales on Understanding
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"If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering."

Diana, Princess of Wales on Understanding
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"The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on Understanding
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"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."

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"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Eschenbach, Marie E. on Understanding
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"You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding."

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"There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women."

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"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."

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"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine."

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"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

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"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Understanding
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Understanding
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"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Understanding
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"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"

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"The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another."

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"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."

Goldman, Emma on Understanding
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"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined."

Gourmont, Remy De on Understanding
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"The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture."

Hazlitt, William on Understanding
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"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."

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