Understand Quotes

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Ah! My Lord! now I understand, Oh, yes! What a voice! What an artist! I understand all!

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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