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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
James Burke
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
Ernest Hemingway
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jos
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoug
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Adlai Stevenson
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
Art Linkletter
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
Isaac Watts
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl Buck
I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Michael Davis
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Norman Vincent Peale
The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Johann von Goethe
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
