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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

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On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

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For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

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We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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