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

“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.”

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Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.”

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Author:Morgan Spurlock

“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.”

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Author:Jon Ronson

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

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Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“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.”

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Author:Edward Boyden

“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

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

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“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.”

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Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

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Author:Kurt Lewin

“here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.”

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Book:Husserl, shorter works

Source: Husserl, shorter works

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.”

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Author:Pope Dionysius

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

Source: Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein