I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Confucius

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When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Confucius

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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci

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