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Understanding Quotes

"Things always become obvious after the fact"

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something"

"Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder"

"Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

"As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge."

"The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's."

"I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."

"Understanding itself is a dynamic and context-dependent process."

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem"

"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it"

"Find the best in everybody. No one is all evil or all bad"

"Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity."

"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."

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