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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. - Samuel Butler

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment. - David Attenborough

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Albert Einstein

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman

By far the greatest impediment and aberration of the human understanding arises from [the fact that]...those things that strike the sense outweigh things which, although they may be more important, do not strike it directly. Hence, contemplation usually ceases with seeing, so much so that little or no attention is paid to things invisible. - Francis Bacon

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly. - Richard Bach

Every man hears only what he understands. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - C. G. Jung

If one is the 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

If you think that you understand and know much, know also that there be many things more which you know not. - Thomas a Kempis

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. - Orson Scott Card

It is a luxury to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding. - Vincent van Gogh

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. - Soren Kierkegaard

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so. - Lemony Snicket

Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming. - Bruce Lee

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area. - T. S. Eliot

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

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become. - Muhammad Ali

The highest action a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. - Baruch Spinoza

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. - Francis Bacon

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. - Francis Bacon

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. - Heraclitus

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. - Baruch Spinoza

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. - Leonardo da Vinci

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding. - Nicholas Black Elk

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran

To understand is to perceive patterns. - Isaiah Berlin

Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand. - Kim Harrison

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. - Norman Vincent Peale

Understanding does not necessarily mean agreement. - Unknown

Understanding gives birth to forgiveness, forgiveness reveals the heart. The heart is the womb of Love. - Soaring Eagle

Understanding is a process by which something that is external to us loses its externality and gains access to our inner self. - Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. - J. Michael Straczynski

Understanding is the essence of Love. If you cannot understand you cannot love. - Unknown

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. - J.K. Rowling

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. 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’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding. - Beau Taplin

What a man does not understand, he does not possess. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? - Graham Greene

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo Da Vinci

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. - Guy Finleyv

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. - Harper Lee