How little we really know about the life all around us…

“[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet.”

— Rachel Barenbaum

“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.”

— James Baldwin

... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or…

— Charles de Lint

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

— Julian Baggini

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

— Esther Dyson

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

— Patrick O'Brian

“Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.”

— Ayn Rand

There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Mrs. Postwhistle’s theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could…

— Jerome K. Jerome

She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the…

— Michael Ondaatje

I just wish people understood better that I, too, am human.

— Ivan Moody

“He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having…

— Tom Franklin

“perhaps the founders understood us better than we understand ourselves.”

— Michael S. Greve

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

— Alain Resnais

I think the American people, through the healthy exchange of ideas, understood that they could do better as a country, in terms of healthcare,…

— Jane O'Meara Sanders