#understanding

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

Understanding is a two-way street. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#two-way #two-way street #understanding

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. ↗

— Peter Davison

#appeal #everybody #levels #poetry #reach

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#in-depth #into #misfortune #only #overview

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ↗

— William James

#best #best way #normal #study #understanding

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#always #been #composition #contra #i

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. ↗

— David Suzuki

#art work #combined #created #growth #how

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#between #difference #great #know #knowing

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#frustrating #good #ill #misunderstanding #more

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#basic understanding #does #field #glamorous #immediate