Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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Understandings
Synonyms for "understandings" (9 found)
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10 entriescomprehensiongentlemen's agreementgraspinformal agreementinsightinterpretationoral agreementperspectivereadingtacit understanding
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5 entriesacademic understandingscommon understandingscultural understandingsmutual understandingsshared understandings
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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
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It would be ridiculous to want to restrain oneself from obedience to an external and foremost will only because it did not accord with prudence. For this is precisely the supposition of the government: that it allows its subjects the liberty to judge right and wrong not according to their own understandings but according to the rule of law.
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Carl has a lifelong interest in exploring the connections between ancient pictographs and traditional Native American understandings of astronomy and the constellations.
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