#understanding

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. ↗

— James Meade

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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war. ↗

— Kelly Miller

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#cannot #capable #child #children #christ

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

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