Understand Something Quotes

92 quotes by 84 authors

Basically, Iâ€™m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . Iâ€™m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing.… — David Blackwell
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful. — Charlie Parker
We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate… — Dave Hunt
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an… — Simon McBurney
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something. — John Paul Caponigro
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand… — Hollie Cavanagh
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. — Douglas Adams
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something — Richard Saul Wurman
I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult… — Demetri Martin
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have… — George Soros
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends… — Marvin Minsky
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself… — Hunter S. Thompson
To understand something is to be delivered of it. — Baruch Spinoza
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men… — Charles Darwin
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we donâ€™t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge,… — Dainin Katagiri
To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly… — Anuj
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will… — Frederick Lenz
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you… — Frederick Lenz

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