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No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Understanding
V. I. Klassen

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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Understanding
Harper Lee

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If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Understanding
Kurt Lewin

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Understanding
Beca Lewis

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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Writers and Writing
Cecil Day Lewis

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Wisdom
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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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
Understanding
James Russell Lowell

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

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The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.
Zen
Ma-Tsu

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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Catholicism
Thomas B. Macaulay

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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Understanding
John Stuart Mill

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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Poetry and Poets
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
Nature
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Journalism and Journalists
Lord Northcliffe

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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Belief
Pliny The Elder

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Books - Reading
Ezra Pound

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