Thought Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

— James Branch Cabell

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and…

— Vladimir Lenin

“You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are…

— Rebecca Makkai

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. I am more touched, still, that you are…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You could shrug your shoulders, put on a face that said…

— Rupert Thomson

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not…

— Donald Rumsfeld

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

— David Sedaris

“I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at all. The…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Well, she thought. Well, well. Here we are, probably for the first time, just talking to each other. Not arguing, not being sarcastic, just…

— L.J. Smith

“So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.”

— Diane Setterfield