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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

» Rowan Atkinson (1956-?) English Comedian

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 Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

» Stephen Hawking (1942-?) English Physicist

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

» Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) German philosopher and cultural critic, associated with the 'Frankfurt School'

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

» William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

» Jose Manuel Barroso (1956-?) Portuguese Politician

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

» Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) American Astronaut

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

» Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British writer[Nobel Prize in lieterature in 1936]

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

» Sophocles (497/6 -406/5 ) Greek tragidian ['Oedipus the King', 'Antigone']

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

» Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) British novelist, short story writer, and poet

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

» Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English Mathematician

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