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No Understanding Quotes

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
- Ernest Hemingway

Where there is no love there is no understanding.
- Oscar Wilde

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
- Amiri Baraka

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
- Glenn Beck

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
- Richard Branson

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
- Karel Capek

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.
- Stanley Clarke

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.
- Michael Ende

Achilles glared at him and answered, Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall
- Homer

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?
- C G Jung

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
- Christopher Lasch

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
- E Lockhart

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.
- Michael Symon

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
- William Trevor

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
- Joseph Wambaugh

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
- Tennessee Williams

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
- Xi Zhi

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