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Quote Genre: Understand
Antoine de Saint-Exupery – ‘Grown ups never understand a…
‘Grown ups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.’
Quote Author: Antoine de Saint Exupery
Quote Genre: Understand
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce – ‘UNDERSTANDING n. A cerebral …
‘UNDERSTANDING n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke who rode a house and Kant who … Continue reading
Quote Author: Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Quote Genre: Understand
Sir Isaiah Berlin – ‘To understand is to perceive…
‘To understand is to perceive patterns.’
Quote Author: Sir Isaiah Berlin
Quote Genre: Understand
T. De Quincey – ‘The mere understanding howev…
‘The mere understanding however useful and indispensable is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.’
Quote Author: T. De Quincey
Quote Genre: Understand
Plato – ‘No law or ordinance is might…
‘No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.’
Quote Author: Plato
Quote Genre: Understand
Francis Bacon – ‘The human understanding is n…
‘The human understanding is no dry light but receives an infusion from the will and affections? What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.’
Quote Author: Francis Bacon
Quote Genre: Understand
Saint Augustine of Hippo – ‘Understanding is the reward …
‘Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayst believe but believe that thou mayst understand.’
Quote Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quote Genre: Understand
Isaac Asimov – ‘(With reference to a corresp…
‘(With reference to a correspondent) The young specialist in English Lit … lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last and in every century they were proved to be … Continue reading
Quote Author: Isaac Asimov
Quote Genre: Understand
Robert Ardis – ‘A specification that will no…
‘A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5×11 inch paper cannot be understood.’
Quote Author: Robert Ardis
Quote Genre: Understand