Lack Of Understanding Quotes

• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  W. Clement Stone

  Truth, Ignorance, Stupidity

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• Lack of understanding is always painful.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Understanding

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• Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

  Robert McCloskey

  Believe, Communication, Knowledge

  TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

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• Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grieving, Self Respect, Silence

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

  Nhat Hanh

  Understanding, Suffering

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Self, Immaturity

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

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• We fear only what we haven’t understood.

  Byron Katie

  Fear, Worry, Anxiety

  Twitter post from Apr 01, 2011

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow.

  Soe Hok Gie

  Adversity, Sorrow, Trouble

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• 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Laughter, Humor

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Bible, Christian, Biblical

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.

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• How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

  David Foster Wallace

  Understanding, Being Weird, Odd

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Lying, Men

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• The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  Arthur Young

  Men, Understanding, Purpose

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• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Thinking, Understanding

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

  Mary Rakow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint

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• Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

  Ron Paul

  Worry, Understanding, Hearing

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• Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Nature, Morning

  "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, November 2002.

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