Quotes about Understand

You are not supposed to like things. Only to understand

Jones... I just don't understand. "Yes, I know that you don't," Jones replied, "but it's an odd thing you've been unable to grasp... See I'm not requiring you to understand. I am simply urging you to obey. For it is only when you obey that, eventually, you begin to understand

it was four years since he had preached that sermon; four years, and England was at peace, the sun shone, the people of Crome were as wicked and indifferent as ever—more so, indeed, if that were possible. If only he could understand, if the heavens would but make a sign!

Omission and simplification help us to understand--but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.

He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought they might be telling her something if she could only understand the language of freckles.

Was it possible to know anyone, truly?

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. I am speaking here of man's mind. The men both worshiped and feared the women.

Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.