Understand Quotes

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

I want the white people to understand my people.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.