Understand Quotes

"I do not know everything; still many things I understand."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
-Albert Einstein

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."
-Albert Einstein

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
-Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
-Albert Einstein

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."
-Mark Twain

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
-Mark Twain

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
-Mark Twain

"To understand everything is to forgive everything."
-Buddha

"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
-Aristotle

"Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."
-George Bernard Shaw

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
-Carl Jung

"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
-Oscar Wilde

"When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners."
-Rita Mae Brown

"Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church."
-John F. Kennedy

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
-Leo Tolstoy

"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
-William Shakespeare

"I understand a fury in your words, but not the words."
-William Shakespeare

"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."
-Carl Sagan

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
-Galileo Galilei

"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new."
-Galileo Galilei

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
-Stephen Hawking