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Understandable Quotes (page 25)

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. Mark Twain
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of... Carl Sagan
It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining. Ann Beattie
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. Fulton J. Sheen
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer. Paulo Freire
And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?"The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..."That's not what I asked. Where is it?"I don't know - how can I answer that?"That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery."My ignorance is based on this... Dan Millman
Samantha Morton quote: "It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry."
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry. Samantha Morton
Henry Moore quote: "Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand..."
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? Dwight L. Moody
Claude Monet quote: "People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were..."
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. Claude Monet
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do. Marvin Minsky
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. Edna St. Vincent Millay
So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse. Ken Mehlman
Vince McMahon quote: "I understand the common man because I understand me in that..."
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least. Vince McMahon
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. Marshall McLuhan

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