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Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
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Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.
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Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
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My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I'd be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations.
- People
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I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don’t think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite fluent in Odiya. I understand the people of Odisha, and they understand me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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- Nov 07, 2020