"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on right and rightness
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."

Williams, H. H. on understanding   

"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

Lewis, Beca on understanding
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"Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding."

Proverb, German on speakers and speaking   

"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand."

Durocher, Leo on baseball
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"If you would judge, understand."

Seneca on judgment and judges
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"To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all."

Rowland, Helen on compatibility
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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Roberts, Steven H. on atheism
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Sinclair, Upton on understanding   

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

Mcluhan, Marshall on experience   

"Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon."

Unknown, Source on learning