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I am entirely well,” said Eldric, “which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don’t care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.

Franny Billingsley
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Francis Bacon
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Franz Grillparzer
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Franz Grillparzer
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Franz Grillparzer
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No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

Franz Schubert
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Francis Bacon
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Franz Grillparzer
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When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

Fred Alan Wolf
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Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the logical, rational way of looking at things, the so-called scientific explanation, which often leaves a lot lacking and doesn't really fulfill understanding the experience at all.

Fred Alan Wolf
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We like to read others but we do not like to be read. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die... by Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka
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Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

Fred D'Aguiar
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There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

Fred Durst
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They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Franz Kafka
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you t... by Freddie Mercury

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

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

Franz Kafka
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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert
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Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty

Frederic Bastiat
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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

Franz Kafka
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