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Lack of understanding is always painful. -- Byron Katie
We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves. -- Julian Fellowes
Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. -- Robert Nozick
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. -- W. Clement Stone
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -- Ambrose Bierce
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination. -- Napoleon Hill
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. -- David Antin
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. -- David Suzuki
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. -- Milan Kundera
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. -- Terry Pratchett
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. -- Arthur Young
Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject. -- David Icke
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding. -- Edward Tufte
A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes. -- Albert Hadley
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! -- Immanuel Kant
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible. -- Franz Kafka
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do. -- Jane Goodall
Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from. -- Reggie Watts
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. -- Milan Kundera
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. -- Nhat Hanh
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. -- Anatole France
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof. -- Homaro Cantu
What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof, -- Homaro Cantu
Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless. -- Gautama Buddha
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -- Ambrose Bierce
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer -- Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer. -- Sunday Adelaja
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems. -- Amanda Lindhout
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. -- Gustav Mahler
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. -- Brooke Shields
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. -- Wendy Kopp
The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do. -- Thabo Mbeki
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts. -- Lee Gutkind
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. -- Albert Camus
Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm. -- Marvin Olasky
Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135 -- Sonia Sotomayor
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts. -- Joe Bastianich

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