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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

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I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.

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We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

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The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

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I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.

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My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

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