Understand Quotes
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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
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Albert Einstein
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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
Benjamin Carson
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My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
Alan Alda
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People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
Dennis Oppenheim
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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
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I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
Samantha Morton
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You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.
Alicia Keys
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It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
Sonita Alizadeh
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I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.
Adrienne Monique Jordan
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I believe in order that I may understand.
Anselm of Canterbury
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You can only understand the present age when it is past.
Han Suyin
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I want to help people understand themselves a little bit better, to stop being so critical and judgmental of themselves, and to help them understand why they are going through some of the difficult things in their lives.
Echo Bodine
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We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.
Marianne Williamson
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I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
Alan Alda
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I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.
Debra Hamel
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The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.
W. Daniel Hillis
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
Confucius
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I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
Benjamin Carson
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Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.
Phil Anselmo Pantera