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Quotes About Understand

Qui non intellegit, aut taceat aut discat: if you don't get it, shut up or go figure.
~ John Crowley
hear you don't believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
~ John Dewey
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
~ John Donne
But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.
~ Jet Li
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.
~ Reuel Howe
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.
~ Anton Chekhov
I think I already understand about life: pretty good, some problems.
~ Sam Lamott
It is the acme of life to understand life.
~ George Santayana
[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.
~ Zach Galifianakis
When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.
~ Billy Collins
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
~ Bruce Beresford
As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.
~ Carole Keeton
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
~ Cesare Pavese
Wanda: But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?  Otto:     Apes don't read philosophy.  Wanda: Yes, they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) One cannot help but think of A Fish Called Wanda when one reads Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion; or at least I can't.
~ Edward Feser
I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.
~ Edward I. Koch
Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.
~ Edward L. Bernays
That propaganda easily seduces even those whom it most horrifies is a paradox that Bernays grasped completely; and it is one that we must try at last to understand, if we want to change the world that Edward Bernays, among others, made for us.
~ Edward L. Bernays
Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don't understand what's happening and take steps to prevent it.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
the institutional bias of the private mass media "does not merely protect the corporate system. It robs the public of a chance to understand the real world.
~ Edward S. Herman
We cannot properly grasp the dynamics of human social life unless we understand the role that intoxicants have played in making civilization possible.
~ Edward Slingerland
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
~ Edward Tufte
A meticulous education educates one's mind, to understand, wrong and right; whereas, it also vitalizes the talent and skill, to integrate and beautify the institutions and system of society.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Follow me if you have the mind for literature; otherwise, you would find nothing other than that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal