Top 100 Can Understand Quotes
#1. Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
Harrison Ford
#3. Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.
Viktor E. Frankl
#4. Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?
Dave Barry
#5. Anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
Jodi Picoult
#6. I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
Azim Premji
#7. Sometimes all I need is a piece of chocolate and then I can understand you
Sharon P. Tulloch
#8. The mind can perceive the impossible.
The heart can endure the impossible.
The soul can experience the impossible.
The hands can do the impossible.
The tongue can express the impossible.
The eyes can discern the impossible.
The ears can understand the impossible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#10. The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.
Vaclav Klaus
#11. Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
Karl Kraus
#12. The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce
#13. Trust is a more complex philosophical issue than the average layperson can understand.
Patrick Weekes
#14. Who can explain life? Who can understand it? Like cats, we just do what we do.
Marty Rubin
#15. Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.
Laurel Clark
#16. I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.
Jason Mraz
#17. Golf baffles me. They says it's a sport, and I have to take their word for it, but anything that involves having fun while standing up doesn't interest me. That includes dancing. NASCAR I can understand. In fact, anything that involves sitting down automatically has my interest ...
Gary Reilly
#18. I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.
Doug Jones
#19. Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish."
"Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.
Sidney Halston
#20. Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar Wilde
#21. Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
Ram Dass
#22. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.
J.K. Rowling
#23. I can understand not wanting to underuse Hawke, but after a while the narrative composition starts to look like a dad's testimony at a custody hearing.
Anonymous
#24. Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
Ted Nelson
#25. Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.
Brook Tesla
#26. Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It's not fickle like the day.
Sarah E. Wright
#27. The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.
Steve Coogan
#28. There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Sophie Marceau
#29. For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.
Philip Sidney
#30. To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
F. Sionil Jose
#31. There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.
M.F. Moonzajer
#32. I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Bill Gates
#33. Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov
#34. I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.
Ron Howard
#36. Exegesis says, "Before you can hear it with your ears, hear it with theirs. Before you can understand it today, understand it back then.
Jen Wilkin
#37. No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand
for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
Ivan Turgenev
#38. I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind.
Cullen Bunn
#39. We're a bit sensitive to blood around here. I'm sure you can understand that.
Stephenie Meyer
#40. Life is much the same when it's going well
resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
Mary Oliver
#41. We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
Levi-Strauss
#42. Love is a strange creature that no man can understand
Lisa C. Miller
#43. Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
Miles Franklin
#44. You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.
Amy Zhang
#45. You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
Katherine Anne Porter
#46. My God
life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?'
'Don't try,' he said. 'Just pretend you understand.'
'That's
that's very good advice.' I went limp.
Kurt Vonnegut
#47. No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.
Gabor Mate
#48. Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#49. No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.
Carl Sagan
#50. People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It's those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in.
Crystal Kadakia
#52. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
David McCullough
#53. Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.
Milan Kundera
#54. Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand.
Robert C. Martin
#55. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
Gloria Steinem
#56. Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
Oliver Sacks
#57. So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#58. Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best".
Sakura Tsukuba
#59. The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Owen D. Young
#60. Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
Heath Ledger
#61. My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
Patricia Polacco
#62. I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.
Frederick Lenz
#63. There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.
Ajahn Amaro
#64. If we can understand each other, then is anything really beyond our reach?
Pearl North
#65. I can understand why you want to hang with her, but seriously, what does she see in you?
Christine Feehan
#66. No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination.
Marty Rubin
#67. When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln
#68. After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
Nell Newman
#69. When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Helen Schucman
#70. The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G.K. Chesterton
#71. I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.
Ken Burns
#72. I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
Stephen Fry
#73. None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#74. Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.
John French Sloan
#75. A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.
Jan Brett
#76. The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
Paulo Freire
#77. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."
- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
Leo Tolstoy
#78. People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!
Garrison Wynn
#79. Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand ... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
G.H. Hardy
#81. Only a pure heart can understand, and a pure heart is one that sends out ready hands.
George MacDonald
#82. He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
Thomas Harris
#83. WHY DO THEY MAKE THINGS SO COMPLICATED? ... So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand
Paulo Coelho
#84. It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
Jonathan Swift
#85. We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
Lord Byron
#86. Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
Steve Earle
#87. It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.
Kobe Bryant
#88. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
May Sarton
#89. In college, there aren't many guys like that, and why would there be? When girls just give it away for nothing? I mean, I can understand why you'd sleep with someone if you love them, but if you barely know them? What's the point? It just cheapens it.
Nicholas Sparks
#90. You asked for help," Wilson said. I also tried to blow up your ship with you in it. "That was before you knew me," Wilson said. I'm sorry about that. "I'm not going to tell you not to be sorry," Wilson said, "but I can understand wanting to get your body back.
John Scalzi
#91. I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard
Sepp Blatter
#92. Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Levon Helm
#93. I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
Thomas Mann
#94. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell
#95. The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
Flannery O'Connor
#96. This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.
Jim Berg
#97. Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand
that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.
Woodrow Wilson
#98. When he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing - not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.
David Foster Wallace
#99. As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don't COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish.
Meg Cabot
#100. A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
Swami Vivekananda
