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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Education
Heraclitus

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Understanding
Thomas Hobbes

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Living Together
Eric Hoffer

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Understanding
Vernon Howard

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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Psychiatry
William James

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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Understanding
Samuel Johnson

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The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
Security
H. Stanley Judd

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Imitation
Carl Jung

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Understanding
Franz Kafka

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Peace
Helen Keller

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Grace
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
Mental Illness
R. D. Laing

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
Meaning of Life
Lao-Tzu

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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Understanding
Lao-Tzu

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Opinions
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Reverie
John Locke

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Faith
Martin Luther

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Opinions
Marshall Mcluhan

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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Understanding
Norman Vincent Peale

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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Sympathy
Pablo Picasso

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Anger
Proverb

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Irony
Agnes Repplier

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Understanding is a two-way street.
Understanding
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Truth
W. Clement Stone

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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Conceit
Count Leo Tolstoy

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun