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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. -- Edmund Husserl
We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on. -- Jon Ronson
I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better. -- Jeff Lindsay
Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative. -- Edward Boyden
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. -- Kathy Acker
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. -- Henry Petroski
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. -- Bryant H. McGill
I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time. -- Colum McCann
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. -- Jim Rohn
You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things. -- Dougray Scott
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class. -- Angie Harmon
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. -- Peter Gay
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
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. -- Christopher Nolan
I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. -- Phil Klay
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. -- Henry Petroski
It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding. -- Becky G
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. -- Frank Herbert
Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good. -- Susan Glaspell
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. -- Kevin Kelly
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things. -- Alice Sebold
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. -- Isaac Newton
Some things were beyond understanding. -- Nicholas Sparks
Some things are beyond human understanding. -- Alexandra Adornetto
Observing and understanding are two different things. -- Mary E. Pearson
Learning many things does not teach understanding -- Heraclitus
By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing. -- Hugo Grotius
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. -- Plutarch
Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding.. -- Himmilicious
The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at. -- Gerald Jay Sussman
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. -- Meister Eckhart
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. -- Jean Renoir
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. -- Paul Rand
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. -- John Wesley
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas -- Miyamoto Musashi
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them. -- Duncan Green
Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky. -- Sarah Dessen
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. -- Allan Lokos
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... -- Soren Kierkegaard
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. -- Yasmina Khadra
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. -- John Flavel
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. -- Robert Genn
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. -- Booth Tarkington
People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it. -- Nas
When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding. -- Shannon L. Alder
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. -- Marge Piercy
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. -- Marcus Aurelius
And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes. -- Dodie Smith
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. -- Anais Nin
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. -- Ernie Pyle
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. -- Francis Bacon
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. -- Jane Goodall
When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things. -- Jostein Gaarder
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class... -- Angie Harmon
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. -- Epictetus
An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. -- Henry Rollins
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die. -- Gertrude Diamant
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding -- George Steiner
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. -- Marcus Aurelius
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. -- Oswald Chambers
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. -- Henry David Thoreau
We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding. -- Jeppe Hein
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. -- Neil Gaiman
To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. -- William McDonough
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. -- Michiel Huisman
Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things. -- Charlie Munger
Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view. -- John C. Maxwell
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. -- Nicholas Sparks
I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by them. -- Josh James
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. -- Hosokawa Tadaoki
Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning. -- Ray Dalio
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -- L.M. Montgomery
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught. -- Michael Pollan
I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me. -- Paulo Coelho
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. -- Francis Bacon
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. -- Richard P. Feynman
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. -- Madeleine Albright
I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call. -- John Krasinski
All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly. -- Confucius
Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered. -- Richard Louv
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. -- Franz Kafka
One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see. -- Giorgio Morandi
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first. -- Marcus Aurelius
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! -- Anne Sullivan
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. -- Robert De Niro
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! -- Anne Sullivan
I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman. -- Shelley Long
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell
The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either. -- Marilynne Robinson
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. -- C. S. Lewis
Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. -- Emir Kusturica

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