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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts, Cannot, Put

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg

Crazy, Imagine, Drive

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
Michael Jordan

Fun, Bad, Within

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Wise, Fool

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life, Why, Dance

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Eminem

Mother, Compassion, Definitely

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx

Religion, Mind, Human

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
Eminem

Career, Able, Off

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

Special, Universe, Makes

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Study, Until, Original

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David Thoreau

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins

Time, True, Once

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau

Today, Important, Late

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

Talk, Learn, Books

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

Women, Men, Truth

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard

Complaint, Poorly

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas Sowell

Business, Important, Cannot

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Problem, Answer, Separate

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs

Car, Study, Stuff

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Time, Live, Knowing

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Music, Art, Wish

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama

Mom, Heart, Gay

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser

Love, Power, Existence

A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus

Away, Order, Turn

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

Everything, Tell, Off

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer

Greatest, Fact, Fine

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Religion, Men, Strong

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
Steve Jobs

Long, Everything, Else

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

Life, Beautiful, Before

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