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  Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Life, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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• On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Weather, Psychology, Gold

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1985.

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Presidential

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Life, Educational

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Learning, Understanding

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

  Moliere

  Speaking Well, Literature, Wells

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• In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Live Life, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.278, Princeton University Press

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• I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beauty, Patience, Understanding

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• Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Misunderstood, Thinker, Being Misunderstood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.181, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Confusion, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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  Women are made to be loved, not understood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.3, Oscar Wilde

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• If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

  Miles Davis

  Music, Jazz, Ifs

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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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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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Should, Humour

  "Outspoken Essays" (Second Series) by William Ralph Inge, ("Confessio Fidei"), 1922.

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• I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

  Larry King

  Iowa, Caucus

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• Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Night, Anticipation

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.52, Lulu.com

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• Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

  Jonathan Swift

  Political, Politics, Corruption

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.365

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• Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

  Jonathan Swift

  Profound, Understanding, Literature

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Men, Computer

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• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Children, Animal, Pet

  In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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