“I've always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon. — Gloria Whelan Copy Share Image
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time.” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough.… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and… — Meg Mitchell Moore Copy Share Image
Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“No one, she thought, had ever understood the nature of love…how love went beyond flutters in the heart, pining and yearning, or… — Tabitha Vohn Copy Share Image
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Well, she thought. Well, well. Here we are, probably for the first time, just talking to each other. Not arguing, not being… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You could shrug your shoulders, put on a face… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it but I didn’t. Not really. Only the smudginess of it, the pink… — Like Crazy Copy Share Image
“He thought about whether he had ever understood or accepted the weakness of his feelings, instead of containing them as dangerous out-of-control… — Gar Lasalle Copy Share Image
“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn't, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered,… — Anna Maria Gardner Copy Share Image
“I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. I am more touched, still, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...and it really was extremely sudden, the way it struck him that, good heavens, he understood nothing, nothing at all about anything,… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
