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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. -- V. S. Naipaul
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. -- Gilbert Parker
I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious. -- John Shelby Spong
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. -- Laura San Giacomo
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do. -- Elon Musk
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream -- Gustave Flaubert
Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world. -- Deepak Chopra
I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. -- Conor Oberst
I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced. -- Oliver Stone
I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge. -- Jim Carrey
I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport. -- Godfrey
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. -- Eckhart Tolle
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Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God". -- Stephen Hawking
The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are. -- Kelly Reilly
In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies. -- Laura Poitras
I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! -- Charles M. Schulz
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. -- Isaac Asimov
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. -- Yann Martel
We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame. -- Shirley Jackson
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. -- Alberto Giacometti
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. -- Ralph Fiennes
I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career. -- Jill Soloway
There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? -- Haruki Murakami
I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me. -- Matthew McConaughey
Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question. -- Billy Connolly
When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself. -- Penelope Mitchell
Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature. -- Bryant McGill
When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it. -- Jim Holt
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. -- Lewis Wolpert
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. -- John Eldredge
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. -- Tom Bodett
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. -- David Attenborough
There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity. -- Frank Oppenheimer
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. -- L.M. Elliott
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. -- L.M. Elliott
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. -- Donella Meadows
Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing. -- Alex Webb
It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you. -- Luis Gerardo Mendez
We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals. -- Surya Das
You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore. -- Martin Walser
I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target. -- Dylan Moran
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells. -- Joshua Lederberg
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them. -- J. Oswald Sanders
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand. -- Ellen Forney
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims. -- Chris Toumazou
I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life. -- Dustin Hoffman
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process. -- Sanjay Kumar
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it. -- Roger Michell
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know. -- Umberto Eco
The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet. -- Rick Warren
I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived. -- lecrae
When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself. -- Michael Eisen
Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out. -- Gretchen Rubin
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical. -- Tess Gerritsen
I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though. -- Tricia Helfer
I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself. -- Carrie Fisher
As a first-time director, you act a lot like a teenager. I made decisions because I was hotheaded. My skin broke out. I was trying to understand who I am. -- Gia Coppola
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. -- Joan Jett
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. -- Francis Ford Coppola
When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration. -- Moises Arias
I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand. -- Bruce Feiler
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. -- Terry Pratchett
Understanding the intricacies involved in raising someone with a physical or mental challenge for those who have never experienced it is like trying to understand anything foreign; impossible, though definitely worth doing anyway. -- Lynette Louise
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home. -- Edwidge Danticat
Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad. -- Hillary Clinton
Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours. -- Nahoko Uehashi
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses. -- Nathan Wolfe
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses." -- Nathan Wolfe
I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals. -- Lee Daniels
The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books. -- Jodi Picoult
Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who did what to whom, why and when - and who did it first. -- Henry Grunwald
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. -- Brandon Boyd
The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies. -- Lisa Randall
From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible. -- Kalan Sherrard
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in. -- Michael Dibdin
Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him. -- Elaine Pagels
I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running. -- Imogen Poots
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm. -- Win Butler
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. -- Caleb Carr
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. -- Paulo Coelho
I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection. -- Amin Maalouf
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. -- Emmett F. Fields
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. -- Frank Gehry
In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character. -- Joel Kinnaman
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. -- Sufjan Stevens
Trying to understand women is a tall order period. -- Ricky Schroder
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens. -- Sandra Bullock
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising. -- Barry Diller
I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. -- Joseph Joubert
Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. -- Clemence Poesy
I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better. -- David Chang
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. -- John Naisbitt
Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. -- Tina Brown
I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful. -- Gary Coleman
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. -- Manuel Puig
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. -- Herb Kelleher
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. -- Caio Fonseca
The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself. -- Colin Blakemore
I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man. -- Tupac Shakur
My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival. -- Cristela Alonzo
It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. -- Scott Berkun
I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something. -- Reggie Watts
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting. -- Matthew Weiner
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say -- Don Watson
Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle... -- Mooji
Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters. -- Michael Fassbender
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle. -- Laozi
If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier. -- Marshall Faulk
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor. -- Frank Howard Clark
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. -- Frank A. Clark
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. -- Alberto Moravia

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