Understand Quotes

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

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

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.