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Understand Quotes by Wendell Berry
- A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith…
- As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this…
- A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
- We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
More Understand Quotes
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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