#understand

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man? ↗

— William Styron

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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ↗

— Marie Curie

#understanding #life

No importa si no te entienden, lo que importa es que tengas el valor de decirlo. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

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Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. ↗

— David Baldacci

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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

#fear #feared #less #may #more

To perceive is to suffer. ↗

— Aristotle

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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#misunderstanding #life

If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it. ↗

— Toba Beta

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