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Understand Quotes by Milan Kundera
- We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't…
- Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge…
- We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through…
- You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have…
- In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off…
- Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand…
- Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but…
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I…
- Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a…
- It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which…
- Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
More Understand Quotes
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. — William Shakespeare
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- May be my words are enough to tell you , How I feel,But you really need a heart to understand my silence. — Nishan Panwar
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong