Understand Quotes
-
To understand is to analyze, control, and put things in order.
-
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
-
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
-
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
-
Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
-
Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute you meet them, ... Then, getting to know them, you begin to understand them -- that's what he's interested in, and so am I.
-
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.
-
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
-
Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.
-
My wife fosters dogs, to try and give these lost puppies a chance to get adopted. I'm grateful to my wife for that, she brings that element to my family and my kids get to understand what that means.
-
I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.
-
Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.
-
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
-
Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
-
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
-
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
-
If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side...
-
Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
-
We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.
-
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
-
...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
-
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
-
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
-
You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.
