"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

Difference, Understanding

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"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

George Eliot, British Author

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"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

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"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."

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"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."

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