Understand Quotes
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I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.
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Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
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He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
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Only those who have been truly afraid can understand the crippling hold it can have on you.
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We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand.
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To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
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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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Until we really understand why people ... don't prepare and what it takes to get that message across, then I think that's going to be our challenge.
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Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
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He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
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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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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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I don't know about the people who didn't understand what Shapiro was doing back then, but they should understand now. This is a very good team. The sky is the limit with this group.
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I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.
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Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.
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It's always good to be around people who get it and understand because it's a huge difference working on a black set. I can walk on a black set and not have to worry about my hair because they know.
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
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I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
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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.
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Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
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Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.
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Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.
