• If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 187 reads

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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 136 reads

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• If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 106 reads

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• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 168 reads

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• It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.3 · 22 votes · 93 reads

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• 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

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.5 · 22 votes · 163 reads

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• Man know much more than he understands.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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• Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 14 votes · 169 reads

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

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 60 reads

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 191 reads

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

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 49 reads

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• Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 17 reads

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• Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 18 reads

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• People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 94 reads

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 180 reads

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

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 44 votes · 17 reads

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.6 · 33 votes · 41 reads

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

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 53 reads

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• So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 36 reads

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

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 91 reads

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• The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 99 reads

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• The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 134 reads

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• The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 38 votes · 56 reads

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• The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 33 reads

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

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 74 reads

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• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 10 reads

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• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 65 reads

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• 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

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.0 · 38 votes · 110 reads

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• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 57 votes · 153 reads

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• 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

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - That can make life a garden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 103 reads

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• Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 135 reads

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• UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 61 votes · 23 reads

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• Understanding is a two-way street.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 164 reads

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• Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  4.5 · 36 votes · 77 reads

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• 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

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 6 votes · 29 reads

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• 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

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.2 · 39 votes · 124 reads

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• Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 121 reads

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• Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 88 reads

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• 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

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 189 reads

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