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Understanding Quotes (page 68)

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. Jack Kerouac
Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her. Lloyd Alexander
Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80) Michael Shermer
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Human science fragments everything in order to understand it,..."
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. Leo Tolstoy
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. Frank Herbert
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them, and drives us further apart. Barack Obama
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means. Philip K. Dick
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. Immanuel Kant
Johan Cruijff quote: "If I wanted you to understand, I would explain it better."
If I wanted you to understand, I would explain it better. Johan Cruijff
Whatever can die is beautiful? more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me? Peter S. Beagle
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop. Gustave Flaubert
Groucho Marx quote: "A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a..."
A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand, and I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said run as fast as you can. (Dear John) Taylor Swift
Dan Brown quote: "Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too..."
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. Dan Brown
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand? We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us. Jean Cocteau

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