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Understand Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work…
- I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.
- Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;…
- My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
- I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from…
- Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
- I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.
- One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly…
- Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
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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
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- 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