Understand Quotes
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
Sarah Hall
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The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
Salvador Dali
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I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.
Alicia Keys
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You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
Napoleon Hill
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My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.
Danny Garcia
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
Martin Luther
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
Dante Alighieri
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I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney [on Broadway] in "Sugar Babies." You understand?
Joey Bishop
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
Sophocles
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'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.
Cara Santana
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I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
Eva Pigford
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I was a self – centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.
Cary Grant
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
Brian O'Driscoll
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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Pablo Picasso
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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.
Oprah Winfrey
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.
Fairfax Cone
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Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
Heraclitus