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Understanding Quotes

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back"
Omar Khayyam
"I often think that the best way to know God is to love many things"
Vincent Van Gogh
"People assume that we’re going to have a perfect understanding of things, but things aren’t that simple."
eric schmidt
"Go into meetings prepared to listen and learn. Don’t expect to brief or be briefed, but to engage and understand"
Jocko Willink
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not"
Carl Jung
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"
Carl Jung
"You don’t look down on them and say ‘You’re a fool for being so sad.’ You say ‘I’m sad too, man, I know. I get it.’"
Louis C.K.
"In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what it's like to be me."
Eminem
"A man who won’t listen can’t hear"
George R.R. Martin
"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
Martin Heidegger
"Live your life. The truth of the matter is, play the game which you understand best. "
Gary Vaynerchuk
"I read, and I've always kept reading. It's a way to understand the world."
Samuel L. Jackson
"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion"
richard feynman
"Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?"
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
"Forgiveness does not mean excusing"
C. S. Lewis
"As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding."
Helen Keller
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
Angelina Jolie
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner"
Nelson Mandela