Understand Them Quotes

220 quotes by 183 authors

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving… — Jodi Picoult
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly. — D. A. Carson
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
I must learn more about these peopleâ€•try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above… — Sylvia Plath
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they… — Norman Doidge
I do not like odd things until I can understand them. — Robert Jordan
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to… — Albert Camus
Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you… — Lauren Kate
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. — Ian Stewart
...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter… — Jodi Picoult
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor… — Nelson Mandela
One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My words itch at your ears till you understand them — Walt Whitman
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to… — Henrik Ibsen
Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour… — John Crowley
I would like to understand things better, but I donâ€™t want to understand them perfectly. — Douglas Hofstadter
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in… — Heather Brewer
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a… — Erin Morgenstern

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