Top 100 Cannot Understand Quotes
#1. One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
Fatema Mernissi
#2. As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood.
Christina Engela
#3. We cannot understand the relationship between poverty and education without understanding the biases and inequities experienced by people in poverty.
Paul C. Gorski
#4. At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
Andy Goldsworthy
#5. I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
Clarence Darrow
#7. Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!
Muhammad
#8. I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.
Virgilia Peterson
#10. People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot
#11. I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
Leonard Cohen
#12. Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.
Eckhart Tolle
#13. You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
Andy Hargreaves
#14. If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
Ravi Zacharias
#15. I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
Thomas Aquinas
#18. If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.
Hooman Majd
#19. Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.
Alexandre Dumas
#20. You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
Timothy Leary
#22. Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
Ravi Zacharias
#23. America is like a dog. I'm sorry, but it is. It cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can't actually explain issues to a dog.
Bill Maher
#24. In any case, we do not and cannot understand what magic is, or where it comes from, any more than a carpenter understands why a tree grows. He doesn't have to. He works with what he has.
Lev Grossman
#25. Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.
Anthony Powell
#27. I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#28. We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V.S. Naipaul
#29. BURGESS
How do you like Moscow?
CORAL
Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives the play a very sinister slant.
Alan Bennett
#30. The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G.K. Chesterton
#32. It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand ...
Soren Kierkegaard
#33. Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.
Monica Cruz
#34. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
Ted Dekker
#35. When apostasy comes, it is because the spirit of revelation departs from us. The wire is broken between us and the source of truth. We cannot understand, though truth be spoken, since we are not possessed of the spirit of truth. We misunderstand and misinterpret.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#36. If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
Enoch Powell
#37. I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
Mark Twain
#38. We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.
Stephanie Mills
#39. If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Often we cannot understand what God does because we cannot see the future He sees.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
Timothy Leary
#42. Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#43. Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.
Pico Iyer
#44. The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
Margaret Deland
#45. There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.
Tariq Ramadan
#46. Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.
Benjamin Peirce
#47. One should never condemn what one cannot understand.
Han Suyin
#48. I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#49. You take anything you fear and cannot understand and make it an object of hate. So much easier to hate and destroy than to seek to understand.
Mainak Dhar
#50. The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
George Bernard Shaw
#51. The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
Timothy Leary
#52. It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody
#53. I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by ... hair.
Alex Turner
#55. In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being
Nikola Tesla
#56. Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.
Edward Abbey
#57. I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
Jean-Francois Chevrier
#58. How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or false? How can we design experiments if there is not such thing as design? How can we explain anything if we do not assert anything and if others cannot understand it?
Angus J.L. Menuge
#59. What I cannot understand about the Russian," Roosevelt complained, "is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.
Edmund Morris
#60. I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.
Henning Von Tresckow
#61. To think it, wish it, even want it
but do it! No, that I cannot understand.
Henrik Ibsen
#62. Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.
Bohdi Sanders
#63. But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one.
Thomas Hardy
#64. We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
#65. Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every schoolboy has encountered before he's in long pants.
Paul La Farge
#66. I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,
Henry Rollins
#67. But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data - something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.
Silas House
#68. Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter
Alok Jagawat
#69. I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I
Patrick DeWitt
#70. Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
J.C. Ryle
#71. There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
Donald Miller
#72. He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Michelangelo
#73. Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.
Reuel Howe
#74. All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
James E. Faust
#75. To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.
Jacques Ranciere
#76. The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.
Wendy Cope
#77. Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore.
John Fowles
#78. One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context
Andrew J. Robinson
#79. I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill Cosby
#80. Sometimes we only bow but we
cannot stand
and we only know but we cannot understand.
Aram Seriteratai
#82. I believe that our ability to grow as an industry is directly proportional to our ability to understand our past; if we cannot understand it because we cannot play it, our evolution may well be stunted.
Richard Rouse
#83. One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude Stein
#84. That night Ana Iris and I go to a movie. We cannot understand the English but we both like the new theater's clean rugs.
Junot Diaz
#85. I cannot understand those so-called 'normal' people who believe that a man should love only a woman, and a woman love only a man. If this were so, then it disregards completely the spirit, the personality, and the mind, and stresses the importance of the physical body.
Sarah Prager
#86. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
#87. In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.
Sathya Sai Baba
#88. The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.
Frank Herbert
#90. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
#91. The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Idries Shah
#92. I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
Mary MacLane
#93. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays.
Andrew Solomon
#94. If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
C.S. Lewis
#95. Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
Charles Baudelaire
#96. Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
Alfred Noyes
#97. We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.
C.S. Lewis
#98. You are like the kid who even cannot understand the different between a kiss on the cheek and a kiss on the lips; simple and devoted unlike the rest of the world.
M.F. Moonzajer
#100. I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
George V
