Understands Quotes

882 Understands quotes by 702 unique authors

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the… — James Allen
You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have… — William Gibson
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the… — Anais Nin
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?… — Sue Monk Kidd
And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. — Ernest Hemingway
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all… — Adolf Hitler
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. — Louis L'Amour
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of… — Leo Tolstoy
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's… — Charles Bukowski
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence.… — Benjamin Hoff
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. — Sinclair Lewis
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One… — Anne Rice
truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by… — Elizabeth McCracken
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never… — Andrea Camilleri
Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling.… — Cecelia Ahern
But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur;… — Susanna Clarke
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only… — Orson Scott Card
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me — Donald Miller
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting… — C.S. Lewis

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