Understand - Quotes
Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
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.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fjodor Mihajlovics Dosztojevszkij
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
I`ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don`t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world`s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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.
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school - and you think I'm going to explain it to you so you can understand it? No, you are not going to be able understand it. [...] You see my physics students don't understand it either. That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.