understanding Quotes

“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

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“that is very interesting history . . . and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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“Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

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