Top 100 Do Not Understand Quotes
#1. Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.
Arthur Rimbaud
#2. I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.
Joyce Meyer
#3. Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding.
Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.
Albert Einstein
#4. I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.
Roz Chast
#5. Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example: Rockabye, Baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all.
Irvin D. Yalom
#6. We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#7. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
#8. Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.
Vieux Farka Toure
#9. i may understand it's easy to cheat loved one
i may understand it's easy to be betrayed Loved one
But i do not understand Its really so Tough to be honest ?
The Biggest challenge for human is to keep self as Human
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#10. Those who would pretend to enforce the kingdom with tanks or guns or laws or edicts do not understand the nature of the kingdom Jesus preached.
Russell D. Moore
#12. Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.
Blaise Pascal
#13. We fear what we do not understand...
Dan Brown
#14. There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
Henrik Ibsen
#15. Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.
Diego Maradona
#16. Unfortunately, most Christians do not understand the battle they are fighting, the enemy that they face, or the means God has provided to overcome the temptations and deception of this present world system.
Chip Ingram
#17. Men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for the success of their frauds.
Henry Fielding
#18. For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#20. Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Delphine De Girardin
#21. I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.
Jaggi Vasudev
#22. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
#23. Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.
Swami Vivekananda
#24. Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous? - that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire? - that which we cannot obtain.
Alexandre Dumas
#25. We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#26. I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so absorbing a thought for you as you are for me...
Franz Liszt
#27. They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope
#28. If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.
Albert Einstein
#29. Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
Yo-Yo Ma
#30. Hippocrates wrote: Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.
Carl Sagan
#31. It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#32. Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.
Henry Heimlich
#33. As her voice finally swells and the song runs out of words, I know I have lost her. She becomes something more important; and she was right, I do not understand.
Pierce Brown
#34. Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.
Andy Andrews
#35. I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
Salvador Dali
#36. When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.
Bob Proctor
#37. When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
Charles Caleb Colton
#38. Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.
Jennifer Rosen
#39. Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
Alex Berenson
#40. Great Mother!I can't believe it!Now I understand."(Mamut)
"I do not understand," Ayla said
Jean M. Auel
#41. My dear friend Queen Victoria, who has absolute trust in the Divine Justice and goodness, used to often say to me: "What we do not understand now, we shall understand some day- in this life or the next" Empress Eugenie
Theo Aronson
#43. My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand the principle in question, while being ignorant implies that you do not understand the principle in question, and therefore, have no right to critique.
Lionel Suggs
#44. The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.
Ernest Becker
#45. To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#46. Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Heraclitus
#47. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#48. A composition that we do not understand or like appears to expand in time as we experience it, yet vanishes almost immediately from memory.
Curtis Roads
#49. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
Harry S. Truman
#50. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.
Amie Kaufman
#51. The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.
Ali Khamenei
#52. The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer
#53. People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
Wilhelm Stekel
#55. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?
Frank Harris
#56. Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
Arthur Schnitzler
#57. The originator of a new concept ... finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#58. My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
Laozi
#59. But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.
Brian Herbert
#60. Everything in the world has a hidden meaning ... Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#61. There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
Jorge Luis Borges
#62. You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#63. Clearly you do not understand the innate intricacies and often illogical drives of an A freak.
Darynda Jones
#64. We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Carl Mydans
#65. Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.
Theodore Von Karman
#66. What you do not know is greater
than what you know.
What you do not understand is greater
than what you understand.
What you have not achieved is greater
than what you have achieved.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
Boris Johnson
#69. if we as consumers do not understand what marketing does to us, we are not defining what is enough; we are letting others determine the definition for us. Does the pull of new clothes for a new season influence your decision-making and purchasing power?
Jeff Shinabarger
#70. No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
#71. It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#72. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.
Colleen Houck
#73. The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.
George W. Bush
#74. I can not draw sheep and cows if I do not understand their lives.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
#75. We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
#76. How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe? And without their belief Mother Earth will wither and Yuletide will fade ... and so, too will I ... like all the spirits and gods before me.
Brom
#78. Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#80. I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.
Mary Balogh
#81. Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
#82. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
E. M. Forster
#83. Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#84. I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.
Brigitte Bardot
#85. Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.
C.S. Lewis
#86. Memories should fade with time but I do not understand why they become clearer as days go by.
Auliq Ice
#87. In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
Leo Tolstoy
#88. Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.
Herman Melville
#89. I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
Robert Menzies
#90. What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
John Keats
#91. ...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can shed its superstitions and embrace the enlightenment that comes from just a basic understanding of how the universe works.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#92. Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.
Dogen
#93. I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable!
Robert Ludlum
#94. In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#95. Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. They were the truth, so far as I can see."
"But you cannot see very far, and what you do see you do not understand. You do not know the truth.
Shannon McDermott
#97. I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.
Edward Witten
#98. Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage ...
David Gemmell
#100. People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?
Dada Bhagwan
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