Cannot Understand Quotes

190 quotes by 163 authors

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must… — Muriel Rukeyser
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. — Mary MacLane
We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in… — Stephanie Mills
If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there. — Frederick Lenz
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami
The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to… — Bernie Siegel
Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands… — Hideki Yukawa
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to… — Mary McCarthy
The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I… — Albert Einstein
One should never condemn what one cannot understand. — Han Suyin
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. — Joseph Chamberlain
Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry. — Thomas Aquinas
Give your approval to all you cannot understand. — Wendell Berry
If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force,… — Hooman Majd
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal… — Bill Cosby
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Unless we remember we cannot understand. — E. M. Forster

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