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I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.