#tan

We understand more than we know. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#science #understanding #wisdom #science

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#learning #understanding #wisdom #wisdom

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. ↗

— Bette Davis

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#character #simile #substance #character

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#running

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ↗

— Aristotle

#understanding #teaching

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. ↗

— John Green

#understanding

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [The Minotaur] ↗

— Albert Camus

#retreat #solitude #understanding

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#employment #essential #first #perpetually #regular

It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#tantrums #risk