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There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man’s heart.

1st Earl of Mansfield

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.

Lyall Watson

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Henry James

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Albert Einstein

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

Albert Einstein

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them.

David Eagleman

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Jorge Luis Borges

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

Arthur Miller

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

Atul Gawande

There’s a lot you can’t tell about people, looking in from the outside” -Hanna

Sara Shepard

You can’t ever know the real anybody unless you’re friends with them. And sometimes not even then.

Susane Colasanti

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

Martin Rees

You don’t understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Marvin Minsky

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

Marvin Minsky

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

Mary Louisa Molesworth

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

Sinead O'Connor

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.

Niels Bohr

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Paul Valery

Sometimes it’s easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

Casey Stengel

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

Christian Marclay

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we’d be so simple that we couldn’t.

Ian Stewart

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Robert Ludlum

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