Understand Quotes
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Flann O'Brien -
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
Flannery O'Connor -
It helped me understand music and to understand people and performing, it was all positive for me and set me up for where I am now.
PJ Morton Maroon 5 -
We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.
Norman Maclean -
I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.
Edward Boyden -
The human brain is not prepared to understand this - even on the steps of the gas chamber.
Claude Lanzmann
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound -
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Ellen Langer -
If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!
Marvin J. Ashton -
We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
Napoleon Hill -
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor Hugo
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If you choose to do both acting and directing on a set, than you're admitting that you understand that everyone is in it for the same goal and it's a collaborative experience. You can't really jump into being an actor, and than direct yourself. At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful. If you try to micro-manage and control all of it, than you're probably heading for disaster.
Rebecca Hall -
Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.
Sophocles -
I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
Eva Pigford -
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
Flannery O'Connor -
Suicide is one concept I do not understand. To want to kill someone else, for a second, yes, but to want to kill oneself, never.
Agnes Moorehead
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
Abraham Lincoln -
While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
Wilhelm Stekel -
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Aelred of Rievaulx