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

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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Parents and Parenting
Chinese Proverb

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When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
Knowledge
Chinese Proverb

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Economy and Economics
Marcus T. Cicero

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They condemn what they do not understand.
Critics and Criticism
Marcus T. Cicero

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
Mind
Marcus T. Cicero

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Critics and Criticism
E. M. Cioran

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
Money
George S. Clason

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Right and Rightness
Confucius

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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Understanding
Rene Coty

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
Planning
Jo Coudert

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Understanding
Stephen R. Covey

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You can't live principals you can't understand.
Principles
Stephen R. Covey

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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Authority
Leonardo Da Vinci

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Understanding
Leonardo Da Vinci

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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
Simplicity
Richard Deupree

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I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Understanding
Princess of Wales Diana

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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Baseball
Leo Durocher

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