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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Opinions
William Blake

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Understanding brings control.
Understanding
Bonewitz

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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Kindness
Christian Nevell Bovee

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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Problems
Dorothea Brande

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Power is the by-product of understanding.
Power
Jacob Bronowski

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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Conflict
Jacob Bronowski

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Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
Heritage
Rupert Brooke

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If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
Purpose
Les Brown

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The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Liberals
Lenny Bruce

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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Understanding
Pearl S. Buck

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If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
Diplomacy
Lord Harold Caccia

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I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Universe
Thomas Carlyle

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Imagination
Thomas Carlyle

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dick Cavett

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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Aid and Assistance
Miguel De Cervantes

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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Recreation
Miguel De Cervantes

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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Words
Malcolm De Chazal

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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
Dreams
John Cheever

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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Dress
Lord Chesterfield

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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Heart
Lord Chesterfield

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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Knowledge
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A man grows most tired while standing still.
Work
Chinese Proverb

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Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Progress
Chinese Proverb

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Action
Chinese Proverb

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Character
Chinese Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun