Understand Things Quotes

64 quotes by 60 authors

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about… — Ron Silver
When you understand things, thereâ€™s no more magic, — Tim Berners-Lee
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any… — C.S. Lewis
When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated. — David A. Cooper
Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor;… — Jose Maria Aznar
I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by them. — Josh James
When filled with God's love, we can do and see and understand things that we could not otherwise do or see or understand. Filled with… — John H. Groberg
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman â€“ how dense! Confucius… — Zhuangzi
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I… — Gottfried Leibniz
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark,… — Yasmin Mogahed
It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of… — Carrie Jones
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the… — Swami Vivekananda
You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them. — Bill Gates
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things… — Marcus Aurelius
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. — Michael Nesmith
Iâ€™m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I… — Arthur Miller
I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better. — Elizabeth Olsen

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