We Understand Quotes

395 quotes by 330 authors

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. — Patrick Rothfuss
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
And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off… — Johanna Lindsey
Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand… — Bill Bryson
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by… — George Orwell
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and… — Colleen McCullough
In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures… — Deborah Harkness
Thatâ€™s how people live, by telling stories. Whatâ€™s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? â€œTell me a story.â€ Thatâ€™s… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy. — Charlie Huston
I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you… — Christopher Paolini
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love — Madame de Stael
Lifeâ€¦we understand it differently at different stages. Itâ€™s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There… — Jeanette Winterson
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who… — Dan Brown
We understand more than we know. — Margaret Atwood
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the… — Robert Penn Warren
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart… — Edgar Allan Poe
We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing… — Cheryl Strayed
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. — Greta Garbo

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