Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
Orson Scott Card
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.
Edward Bernays
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Christian Nevell Bovee
We see nothing truly till we understand it.
John Constable
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
Emil Cioran
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesnt understand.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov