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"We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards."
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"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something."
"To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name."
"Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page " but then the world is the same way, isn't it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition."
"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""
"Everything has a reason, but the moment to know the reason would be revealed the day dots are connected."
"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."
"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
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"I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."
"If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains."
"What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive."
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