Understand Quotes

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

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.

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.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.