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Understand Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to…
- The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,…
- The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not…
- The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel…
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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
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- 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