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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand. - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo), In Ioannis Evangelium In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. - Albert Camus The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. - Confucius The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. - Joanna Field To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. - Jose Ortega y Gasset A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it. [Ger., Man lernt nichts kennen also was man liebt.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. - Baltasar Gracian (used pseudonym Lorenzo Gracian) In the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you are doing rather than to get the right answer. - Tom Lehrer Those who have read of everything are though to understand everything too; but it is not always so--reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what is read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. - John Locke (1) To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines. - Rod McKuen A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche We think we understand each other, but we never really do. - Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. - Franz Schuber It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Beall Sinclair How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? - Aleksandr (Alexander) I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, (Ralph Parker translation) Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. - Lionel Trilling If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things. - Vincent van Gogh What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. - Alice Walker It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly. - Josiah Warren
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