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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world? — Ramana Maharshi

I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious. — John Shelby Spong

We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance. — Steven Brust

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Trying to understand people is like interpreting dreams. — GEORGEOS C. AWGERINOS

No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain. — Kemi Sogunle

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord. — George W. Bush

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story. — Ron Carlson

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity. — Frank Oppenheimer

She knew what he was thinking: if she was asking questions like these, she was trying to understand. Trying to forgive him. He was right. — Chris Pavone

We live someone else's life without trying to understand and become what we are really designed to be — Sunday Adelaja

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. — Lewis Wolpert

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary. — Jane Fonda

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside. — Alan Moore

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough

Maybe she'd never understand the rules of this place enough to blend in, but she had to keep trying. — Kit Rocha

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day. — Bob Dylan

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream — Gustave Flaubert

I'm obsessed with trying to understand what somebody is talking about and trying to get them to understand me. — Matthew McConaughey

Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible. — Gracie Allen

Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it. — Cory Doctorow

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. — Eugene Ionesco

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy. — Jim Stovall

I don't want to die without at least trying to understand why I've lived." Beatrice — Michael Goorjian

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you. — Luis Gerardo Mendez

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame. — Shirley Jackson

[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment. — Steven Mithen

surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing." ~Eckhart Tolle Yes, — Katarina Ilic

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier. — Marshall Faulk

The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There's no sense in trying. — Bob Dylan

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place. — Lisa Unger

We tend to give up so easy in trying to understand people so we end up judging them !! — Hisham Fawzi

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand. — Erin Willett

Trying to understand Daddy is like trying to nail jelly to a tree. — Dia Reeves

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress. — Clayton M Christensen

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. — Scott Berkun

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. — Dogen

So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? — Haruki Murakami

Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care. — Debasish Mridha

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else. — Gennifer Choldenko

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand. — Ellen Forney

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it. — Rabindranath Tagore

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do. — Elena Ferrante

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way. — Lewis Thomas

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself. — Penelope Mitchell

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. — Athanasius

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures. — Claire Tomalin

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one. — Gayle Forman

People are always trying to understand.
There is only one way to do that.
It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand. — Idries Shah

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand. — Anne Ford

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life. — Dustin Hoffman

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves. — Byron Katie

To fly into Moscow was a joy. I was trying to understand what people were thinking and how to earn money. In the end, I stayed. — Suleyman Kerimov

I can understand how hard it is. Being a tiny lamb and trying to survive among hungry wolves. — M.F. Moonzajer

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. — Tom Bodett

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it. — Sean M. Carroll

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say — Don Watson

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — L.M. Elliott

Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature. — Bryant McGill

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people. — Joel Osteen

The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back. — Anonymous

To enhance your experience and consciousness, your mind is always trying to understand everything that is going on around you. — Debasish Mridha

You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore. — Martin Walser

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti

To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying — Bob Dylan

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies. — Laura Poitras

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children. — Gabrielle Reece

Von Rumpel laughs. He appreciates that they are trying to play the game. But don't they understand that the winner has already been determined? He — Anthony Doerr

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

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are. — Kelly Reilly

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work. — Matthew Crawford

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves. — Kelli Russell Agodon

People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor. — Ryan Phillippe

Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand. — L.M. Montgomery

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. — Jacob M. Braude

We are the dust of the Universe, trying to understand itself. — Charles Pellegrino

People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time. — Paulo Coelho

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died. — Sidney Sheldon

Try to understand long before you move to judgment. — Michael Adam Hamilton

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical. — Tess Gerritsen

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. — Yann Martel

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. — Laura San Giacomo

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it. — Roger Michell

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me! — Tupac Shakur

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?' — Mardy Grothe

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason. — Berenice Bejo

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world. — Deepak Chopra

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain. — Eckhart Tolle

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. — Herb Kelleher

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them. — J. Oswald Sanders

I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such. — Leslye Walton

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original — Charles Spurgeon

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right. — Harry S. Truman

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals. — Surya Das

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself. — Colin Blakemore