Understand Quotes
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My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Understand the now. Don't even worry about five seconds later, worry about now.
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Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
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When you truly understand one thing—a hawk, a juniper tree, a rock—you will begin to understand everything.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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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.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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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.
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You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.
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He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.
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What they don’t understand—and the wide world certainly does not understand—is that these reckless acts do stem from a biological need to alter their inner state. In pain, they feel compelled to seek relief immediately.
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To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
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For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
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I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.
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If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
