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Some things are more than we can understand. — Christie Watson

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are. — Robin Hobb

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder. — Brian Cox

I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? - Job xii. 3. — Thomas Hardy

There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand. — Bram Stoker

I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by them. — Josh James Riebock

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time. — Colum McCann

Some things are beyond human understanding. — Alexandra Adornetto

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. — Marcus Aurelius

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

These people looking for efficiencies have no understanding that governments have to do things you can't put a dollar on — Malcolm Fraser

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. — Amy Tan

WHY DO THEY MAKE THINGS SO COMPLICATED? ... So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand — Paulo Coelho

The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me. — J.D. Vance

The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die. — Gertrude Diamant

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one. — Thich Nhat Hanh

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. — Michiel Huisman

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

don't ever allocate necessary time for unnecessary things. Understand what time it is to do what it is — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Accomplishing hard things requires preparation, a realistic understanding of what may be required and a willingness to put forth the effort. — Andi Jones

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it. — Nas

She looked that word up too, hoping to understand it, as understanding gave her power over things. — Seth Dickinson

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. — Paul Rand

Observing and understanding are two different things. — Mary E. Pearson

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding. — Becky G

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class. — Angie Harmon

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. — Kathy Acker

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. — Meister Eckhart

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things. — Charlie Munger

All dread those things they don't understand ... — Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing. — Hugo Grotius

Never rely on your little knowledge and understanding. There are always some things that you don't know. — Maliheh Sadat Razavi

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. — Booth Tarkington

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life
an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars. — Mary Tyler Moore

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand ... — Soren Kierkegaard

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. — John Flavel

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. — L.M. Montgomery

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. — Bryant McGill

There were just fucked-up people trying to cope as best they knew how with things they had no understanding of. Over — Mary Coughlan

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. — Marcus Aurelius

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. — Ernie Pyle

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words. — Alexis De Tocqueville

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? — Robert Frost

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand. — Robert Aickman

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at. — Gerald Jay Sussman

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. — Edmund Husserl

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see. — Giorgio Morandi

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror. — Ron Hall

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho

It's like you live your life not understanding anything at all and then you find out there's a whole new subset of things you don't understand. — Heather Birrell

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. — Plutarch

He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding. — E. Lockhart

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. — Neil Gaiman

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. — Yasmina Khadra

grounded hope" - the understanding that if you take action you can make things better. — Sheryl Sandberg

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. — Christopher Nolan

The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things. — M.F. Moonzajer

The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them. — Julia Roberts

Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. — Elliot Aronson

Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. — Henry Petroski

Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding.. — Himmilicious

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. — Jean Renoir

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean. — Bob Dylan

In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. — John Wesley

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. — Allan Lokos

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud. — Wallace Stevens

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. — Kenneth G. Wilson

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical. — Bryant McGill

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. — Jane Goodall

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly. — Albert Einstein

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. — Nicholas Sparks

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding ... that's where things get sticky. — Sarah Dessen

Learning how to clear your mind of any judgment that might filter through is vitally important in understanding things on an intuitive level. — Catherine Carrigan

The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. — Hosokawa Tadaoki

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Shaping someone's understanding of the things of God is a huge responsiblity, and it is not to be taken lightly. — Jen Wilkin

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them
like 'em better sometimes. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Things don't have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things. — Alberto Caeiro

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. — Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. — Shannon L. Alder

Why should things be easy to understand? — Thomas Pynchon

Why the man had to have an entourage of ten people everywhere he went was beyond his scope of understanding. Most things about the Senator were. — Randall Wood

Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom. — Pearl Zhu

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. — Henry Rollins

By thinking of things you could understand them. — James Joyce

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. — Richard Whately

It is your own will to understand things, that makes you sensible.Education is just a fair chance. — Syed Arshad

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things. — Jack Dangermond

But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things. — Kat Zhang