“ Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 4K
“ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.7K
“ That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
- 1.8K
“ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 373
“ When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. ”
- Gordon Atkinson- Copy
- 776
“ A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.2K
“ One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved. ”
- Jane Goodall- Copy
- 976
“ In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ”
- Johann von Neumann- Copy
- 389
“ You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act. ”
- John Green- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 776
“ Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ”
- Marie Curie- Copy
- 2K
“ You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ”
- Marvin Minsky- Copy
- 910
“ It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. ”
- Pierre Beaumarchais- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. ”
- Queen Juliana- Copy
- 4K
“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. ”
- Upton Sinclair- Copy
- 3K
“ The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. ”
- Pierre Abelard- Copy
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