Understand Quotes

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

A person hears only what they understand.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Don't find fault with what you don't understand.

I just don't understand why.

If you want to understand your partner, you have to listen to their life stories, where they came from, their life experiences. You can't be selfish. You've got to realize the other person has needs just as important and as valuable as mine.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.