The world is not always ours to understand…

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

— Thomas Carlyle

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

— William Faulkner

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not…

— David Gemmell

“There are two worlds. The world you understand and the world you don’t. These worlds exist side by side, sometimes only centimeters apart, and…

— Anthony Horowitz

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers…

— Ken Wilber

Sometimes I think, I understand the world more than I understand myself.

— Jeremy Limn

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

— Ali Meshkini

The world is not something to understand. Instead, you just adapt to it.

— Na Taejoo

Maybe if you came out of your world you would understand how I feel.

— Anonymous

“Most of us want to fix or change the world in some fashion. But to change the world, you first have to understand it.”

— Steven D. Levitt

The world cannot always understand one's profession of faith, but it can understand service.

— Ian Maclaren

“That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

— Jane Austen

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

— Rudyard Kipling

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

— Jane Austen