Lack Of Understanding Quotes - Page 2

• Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Change, Real, Usa

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Verity Publishing

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• Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.

  David Icke

  Believe, Reality, Understanding

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• In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Encouraging, God, Religious

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”

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• Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Hilarious

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.75, eBookIt.com

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• She live in a mindset that I could never move to

  Drake

  Change, Moving, Humble

  Song: Houstatlantavegas, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.

  Iris Marion Young

  Thinking, Numbers, Racism

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Law, Miracle

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

  David Antin

  Giving Up, Understanding, Trying

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• We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

  Julian Fellowes

  Life, Advice, Understanding

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• Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Men, Conquer The World

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• When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Views, Diversity, Understanding

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• The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Holiness, Modern, Holiness Of God

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.183, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Success, Sex

  Emma ch. 9 (1816)

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• Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Projects, Projection

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• Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dark, Intelligence, Use

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

  George Orwell

  Party, Reality, Views

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• Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Understanding, Mathematics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Sex, Views, People

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• What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Worry, Understanding, World

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• ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Understanding, Violent, Destruction

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• The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Inspirational, Art, Future

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• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Understanding, Misunderstood, Language

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• Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

  Robert Nozick

  People, Understanding, Economics

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

  "Is There Evidence for God?". The Craig-Krauss Debate, www.reasonablefaith.org. March 2011.

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