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Quotes About Understand

freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.
~ Olivia Manning
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.
~ Orson Scott Card
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we "understand." Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.
~ Orson Scott Card
We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't always understand what it's doing.
~ Orson Scott Card
you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.
~ Orson Scott Card
She could see his reasoning. Or rather, his unreasoning. He could win all he wanted, but he knew in his heart that there was always someone who could destroy him. … "You don't understand", he said. "Yes I do." "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter." "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me.
~ Orson Scott Card
gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.
~ Orson Scott Card
The only profit from their sojourn on Earth would be the memory of this mad species, which had somehow become intelligent without ever learning how to understand themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card
When you don't understand the consequences for your acts, how can you be blamed for them?
~ Orson Scott Card
I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
~ Orson Welles
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
~ Oscar Wilde
You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.
~ Confucius
Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.
~ Confucius
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
~ Confucius
and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world will take your life. But above all and lastly the world does not know that you are here. You think that you understand this. But you dont. Not in your heart you dont. If you did you would be terrified. And you're not. Not yet. And now, good night.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But Dustfinger must be told what happens to him, she thought, he must. Then he'll understand why he really can't go back. And all the same, she thought next, he'll still be homesick. Homesick forever.
~ Cornelia Funke
It's a world full of terror and beauty (...) and I could always understand why Dustfinger felt homesick for it.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sommige boeken proef je, andere verslind je, en slechts enkele kauw je, en verteer je helemaal.
~ Cornelia Funke
What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats.
~ Cory Doctorow
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
~ Walt Whitman
For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?
~ Walt Whitman
I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them.
~ Walt Whitman
It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
~ Walter Isaacson