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.’

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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

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Sir Isaiah Berlin – ‘To understand is to perceive…

‘To understand is to perceive patterns.’

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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.’

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Sir James Matthew Barrie – ‘We never understand how litt…

‘We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.’

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Plato – ‘No law or ordinance is might…

‘No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.’

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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.’

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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.’

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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

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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.’

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