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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
Richard Phillips Feynman
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A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.”
Paul Valéry
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The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.”
André Gide
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung
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It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie
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They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
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If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle
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It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Paulo Coelho
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Man knows much more than he understands.”
Alfred Adler
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
Theodor W. Adorno
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
Milan Kundera
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Leo Tolstoy
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Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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To understand is, above all, to unify.”
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
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Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
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There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”
Auguste Rodin
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Baruch Spinoza
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
John Locke
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Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
Hypatia
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”
Pablo Picasso
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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
Carl Gustav Jung
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