Sentence examples for understand rather than from inspiring English sources

It does not diminish their particularity to say that they are illustrative rather than revelatory, reinforcing what we feel we understand rather than shedding new light or bringing new understanding.

"I will always strive to understand, rather than find fault.

Ask open-ended questions and seek to understand rather than to challenge or convince.

A cultural and sociological study that seeks to understand rather than mock.

What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to merely describe, how the world works?

"But I think that you should jolly well try to understand rather than judge for as long as possible".

This is a Lear one understands rather than sympathises with.

He was always interested in what the human mind understands, rather than what it can formalize.

Much of the connection between them was understood, rather than explored or raked over.

"This play helps people understand that gay people should be understood rather than rejected out of hand," he said.

Sadly, then, this turns out to be the single woman as conventionally understood, rather than radically and positively re-envisioned.