Understand Quotes

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

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.

Nikki Giovanni

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
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