Understand quotes

I don't intellectually understand you people. I don't understand your hate, I don't understand your rage, I don't understand what it is about the goodness of this country you can't abide.

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree-I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America.

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.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

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

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

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

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.