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Understand Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which…
- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
- I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
- The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
- Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them…
- To understand something is to be delivered of it.
- But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of…
- The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
- I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
- The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
- No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
- The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
- From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea…
- I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
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- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila