"You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before"
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"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites."
"My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."
"God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission."
"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."
"Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God."
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
"Creation is great, and cannot be understood."
"Seek to understand rather than be understood."
"we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others"
"No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony."
"The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood."
"Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood."
"Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized."
"Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did."
"What is not fully understood is not possessed."
"Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."
"The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred."
"It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once."