Understand Quotes

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

~ Zadie Smith

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

~ Seth Gabel

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

~ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

~ Graham Greene

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

~ Carl Jung

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

~ Billy Joel

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

~ Toyo Ito

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

~ Frederick The Great

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

~ Karl Marx

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

~ Henry James

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

~ Michelle Obama

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

~ James Thurber

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

~ Sean Connery

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

~ Joshua Bell

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

~ Paul Watson

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

~ Richard Dawkins

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

~ Walt Whitman

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

~ Daniel Barenboim

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

~ Isadora Duncan

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

~ Susan Rice

I understand that finance can be very complex.

~ Kevin Harrington

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

~ Abbie Hoffman

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

~ Robin Tunney

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

~ Tori Amos

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

~ John P. Kotter

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

~ Lupe Fiasco

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

~ John Calvin

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

~ Alice Walker

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

~ Kristin Chenoweth

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

~ Alexander Chase

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

~ Groucho Marx

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

~ Claude Monet

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

~ Claude Monet

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

~ Roger Ailes

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

~ Ryan Bethencourt

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

~ Gigi Hadid

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

~ Albert Einstein