The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. Albert Einstein

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• understanding

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei

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• truth
• understanding

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that. Thomas Sowell

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

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Learn by trying to understand simple things in terms of other ideas—always honestly and directly. What keeps the clouds up, why can't I see stars in the daytime, why do colors appear on oily water, what makes the lines on the surface of water being poured from a pitcher, why does a hanging lamp swing back and forth—and all the innumerable little things you see all around you. Then when you have learned to explain simpler things, so you have learned what an explanation really is, you can then go on to more subtle questions. Richard Feynman

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This is the source.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. Soren Kierkegaard

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