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

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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.

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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

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The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

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There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

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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.

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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

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