Understand Quotes
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin Peirce
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Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.
Katty Kay
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Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
Ernestine Rose
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
Ernest Hemingway
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I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg
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I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.
Dale Hansen
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People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.
Georges Doriot
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
Natalie Portman
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To understand an artist is to be a genius.
Andrew Lakey
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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
Honore de Balzac
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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
Eugene Ionesco
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And I felt so foreign, lying there, the wind howling outside our window. What was I doing here? Who was Rafe, really? Can you just put a part of yourself on hold? And if you do, does it cease to be true? Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.
Bill Konigsberg
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One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
Michael Flanders
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
Galileo Galilei
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You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael Gerber
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
Evan Dando
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There are people who don't understand some of the core aspects of being a decent human being.
Aquaria
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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.
Aristotle
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You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Hannah Arendt
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
Walt Whitman
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Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
Michael Foreman