Understand Quotes
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There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
Donald Miller
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin Peirce
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
Courtney Milan
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Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.
Angela Johnson
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Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.
Susan Brooks
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I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand.
Anna Leonowens
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It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
Galileo Galilei
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.
Meghan McCain
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In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.
Wilder Penfield
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
William Faulkner
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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.
Heraclitus
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Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
Scott Ritter
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If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
Mary Doria Russell
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
Rene Descartes
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You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.
Ricky Schroder
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When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!
Michael Weatherly
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It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
Amber Dermont
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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
Honore de Balzac
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We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.
Richard Ojeda
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To understand is to analyze, control, and put things in order.
Anne Fontaine