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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck

— Claude C. Hopkins

A duck in a pond is calm and carefree... but what you don't see under the water is the struggling & stressed feet.. what…

— Nishan Panwar

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark…

— Elisabeth Elliot

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

— Russell Crowe

“Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

— Kenny Cunningham

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common…

— Francis Bacon

“Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to…

— Peter Carey

the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in…

— Zeno Vendler

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

— Francis Bacon

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

— Rick Riordan

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,…

— Alfred North Whitehead