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Image of Paul Klee
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind
- Paul Klee
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Image of Georg C. Lichtenberg
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Image of Primo Levi
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.
- Primo Levi
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Image of Ray Kurzweil
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.
- Ray Kurzweil
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Albert Bandura
Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison
- Albert Bandura
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Image of Dean Koontz
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.
- Dean Koontz
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Image of Bruce Lee
We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Bruce Lee
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
- Bruce Lee
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Image of R. D. Laing
What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.
- R. D. Laing
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Soren Kierkegaard
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Image of David Levithan
When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
- David Levithan
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Image of Lester Bangs
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.
- Lester Bangs
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Image of Jack Kornfield
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
- Jack Kornfield
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Image of Soren Kierkegaard
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Fran Lebowitz
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Image of Bruce Lee
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Jack Kornfield
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
- Jack Kornfield
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Image of Anne Lamott
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Bruce Lee
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Dalai Lama
On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Dalai Lama
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Martin Luther
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
- Martin Luther
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Image of David Mamet
"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.
- David Mamet
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Image of Terence McKenna
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Matthew Specktor
Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.
- Matthew Specktor
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Image of Martin Luther
Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
- Martin Luther
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Image of Terence McKenna
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Image of John Quincy Adams
We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
- John Quincy Adams
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Image of Ernest Sosa
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
- Ernest Sosa
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Image of Anthony de Mello
The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
- Anthony de Mello
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Image of Ernst Mayr
Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
- Ernst Mayr
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Brené Brown
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
- Brené Brown
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Image of Ram Dass
We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
- Ram Dass
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Image of Stephen R. Covey
To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
- Stephen R. Covey
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Image of Carl Sagan
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
- Carl Sagan
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Image of Miyamoto Musashi
The purpose of today’s training is to defeat yesterday’s understanding.
- Miyamoto Musashi
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Image of John Lennon
I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.
- John Lennon
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Image of Niels Bohr
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr
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Image of Noam Chomsky
We don’t use the term ‘working class’ here because it’s a taboo term. You’re supposed to say ‘middle class,’ because it helps diminish the understanding that there’s a class war going on.
- Noam Chomsky
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