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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.
View quotes by Andrea Corr

[on understanding] The definition is this: to understand something is to know what it means, to know what its significance is. To understand a sentence is to know what it means, to understand a language is to know what its words and sentences mean, to understand a phenomenon more generally is to know its significance.
View quotes by Tim Crane

For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe - that unless I believe, I should not understand.
View quotes by Anselm Of Canterbury

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

View quotes by William Faulkner

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

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
View quotes by Henry Moore

I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.
View quotes by Toni Collette

The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand (Il Barone Rampante)
View quotes by Italo Calvino

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
View quotes by Henry James

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law.
View quotes by Derek Jarman

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
View quotes by Galileo Galilei

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them
View quotes by Lenny Bruce

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.
View quotes by Mike Trout

When man learns to understand and control his own behaviour as well as he is learning to understand and control the behaviour of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.
View quotes by Don Murray

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
View quotes by Saint Augustine

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: 'I will understand this, too, I will understand everything
View quotes by Primo Levi

We only understand that which already within us.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
View quotes by Emma Goldman

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
View quotes by Kurt Lewin

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Proverbs:

You Have To Understand, Somethings You Will Never Understand
A Fool Finds No Pleasure In Understanding But Delights In Airing His Own Opinions
Seven-fifths Of All People Do Not Understand Fractions


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