E. M. Forster - Understand Quotes

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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

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Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

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I went to our Theological College lately, Westcott House, and we had a sort of chat. He told me that without him it was impossible to understand the universe, and I came away having forgotten to reply that it did not occur to me to try to understand the universe. I must not run on like this so. Or rather what I mean is I have just finished the biography of my great aunt. Undersanding, or partially understanding, her has been quite a large enough job.

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Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

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