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 | "(With reference to a correspondent) The young specialist in English
Lit ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have
thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they
were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about
our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong. ... My answer to him was, "...
when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people
thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that
thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is
flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."" | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "A child of five would understand this. Send somebody to fetch a
child of five!" | |
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Groucho Marx
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| "A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper
cannot be understood." | |
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Robert Ardis
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| "Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is
tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to
them." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "Happy the man who knows the causes of things." | |
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Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil
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| "I can"t stand it... It"s driving me sane" | |
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Spike Jones
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| "I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but, I am
not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." | |
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Proverb
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| "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a
fool." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one
has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many
things." | |
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Vincent van Gogh
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| "If you can"t explain it simply, you don"t understand it well
enough." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "If you want truly to understand something, try to change it." | |
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Kurt Lewin
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| "It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a
lot." | |
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Anatole France
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| "Men are most apt to believe what they least understand." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why
it is as it is and why it exists at all." | |
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Stephen William Hawking
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| "No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding." | |
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Plato
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| "Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I
may understand. For this too I believe, that unless I first believe, I
shall not understand." | |
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Saint Anselm of Canterbury
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| "Seek first to understand before being understood." | |
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J.Richard Clarke
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| "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating
than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and
we are never the same." | |
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Franz Peter Schubert
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| "The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion
from the will and affections? What a man had rather were true he more
readily believes." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the
meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted." | |
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T. De Quincey
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| "Things I don?t understand don?t destroy my faith in the things I do
understand." | |
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Richard L. Evans
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| "Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand
anything." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "To understand is to perceive patterns." | |
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
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| "Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to
understand that thou mayst believe, but believe that thou mayst
understand." | |
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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| "Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided
by it, is one weapon against the world"s bombardment, the one medicine,
the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped ... in
the individual, and in the race." | |
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James Agee
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| "UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to
know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws
have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who
lived in a horse." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater
achievement." | |
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Susan Taylor
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| "Verily, a man hath performed prayers, fasts, charity, pilgrimage and
all other good works; but he will not be rewarded except by the proportion
of his understanding." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "We never understand how little we need in this world until we know
the loss of it." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did." | |
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Unknown
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| "When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you
think." | |
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Barry Commoner
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| "Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all
thy getting get understanding." | |
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The Bible
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