Understand Quotes
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Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.
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We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.
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Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.
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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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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
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I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.
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I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.
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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.
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I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
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I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
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To understand is to forgive.
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We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
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I don't understand why people don't remember my name.
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Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
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Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'
