Top 100 Does Not Understand Quotes
#1. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Khalil Gibran
#2. ... rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that
man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.
Giambattista Vico
#3. He understood very little about this strange situation, and to act in a situation one does not understand is to invite the most terrible consequences.
Stephen King
#4. I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
Northrop Frye
#5. The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry
Karl Marx
#6. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#7. The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
Rumi
#8. There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin
#9. This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?
Yann Martel
#11. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
#12. The prince is blind to subtlety. He knows his own ignorance and stupidity so is ever suspicious of others, especially when they say things he does not understand. One cannot negotiate when dragged in the wake of emotions.
Steven Erikson
#13. India is a confused nation today. It does not understand its nature, which seems to be a hotchpotch of the masculine and feminine way. But if you force me to choose, then I would state that, at this point in time, we're a feminine culture in decline.
Amish Tripathi
#15. Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#16. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein
#17. But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
Sheldon Vanauken
#18. He smiles into the sun. He loves his wife more than life itself, why he even says, "I love you more than life itself," and does not understand this is the most frightening thing anyone can say.
Vanessa Place
#19. It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.
Cassiodorus
#20. If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
#21. A Heart dies when it is not able to share its "Feelings" But A Heart kills it self when another Heart does not understand its "Fellings
David Self
#22. It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#24. All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
#25. Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.
T.A. Cline
#26. Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town
Returns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods, to fling him down.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#27. Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.
Loren Eiseley
#28. Your brain does not understand what you are capable of. There is way more inside of you than you can imagine.
Craig Groeschel
#29. He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
Hippocrates
#30. To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
Hamilton Jordan
#31. Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of the enormous evils ... But love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed of wisdom.
Sheldon Vanauken
#33. Nope. That's right, girl, Shirleen does not understand. So what trauma are we up against now?" Shirleen's eyes moved to me. "You havin' too many orgasms or what?
Kristen Ashley
#34. Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.
John Dee
#35. It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.
Javier Cercas
#36. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
Imam Ali
#37. I'm afraid my vagina does not understand tonight's mission.
Krista Ritchie
#38. As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
Franz Grillparzer
#39. In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
Bei Dao
#41. Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he is doing is to paint a picture of his own society in fancy dress.
Eric John
#43. MIMIC He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. WM-ST-63
Kahlil Gibran
#44. If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
Hannah Storm
#45. There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
Lactantius
#46. Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
Zhuangzi
#47. A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
Fulton J. Sheen
#48. When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Frank Herbert
#49. Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.
Arthur Adamov
#50. ; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.
Simone De Beauvoir
#51. Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to imagine an opinion contrary to its own
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)
Maxine Hong Kingston
#53. Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.
Neale Donald Walsch
#55. Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick The Great
#56. We should be content with the incomprehensibility of the universe; the desire to understand makes us less than human, for to be human is to know that one does not understand.
Fernando Pessoa
#57. Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#58. What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand ... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov
#60. Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.
Thomas Bernhard
#61. Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
Duke Ellington
#62. Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#63. Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.
Chapman Cohen
#64. A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.
Samuel Johnson
#66. One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.
Voltaire
#67. Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
Kahlil Gibran
#68. A light shines in the darkness but the darkness does not understand it." - John 1:5 "No man is a complete mystery but to himself" - Proust
Mark Edward Hall
#69. Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.
Mitch Albom
#70. For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#71. Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.
Cecilia Meireles
#72. When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
Ajahn Chah
#73. Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
Thomas Sowell
#74. Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
Antony Beevor
#75. Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
Mario Andretti
#76. Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#77. Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.
J. Ruth Gendler
#78. Lots of donations and money go to rescue dogs and cats, however the public does not understand that every cow, pig and chicken needs to be rescued too.
Nathan Runkle
#79. Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.
Peace Pilgrim
#80. Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Jung
#81. For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.
Louis J. Halle
#82. The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
Mortimer J. Adler
#83. He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#84. There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde
#85. Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe
#86. A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.
Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
#87. He heaps up riches by himself and thinks How strong I am now and how secure and in his madness he does not understand that the more he heaps up, the more he sinks into self-destructive impotence
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#88. The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
Dwight L. Moody
#89. Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
Zhuangzi
#90. Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death
Sorin Cerin
#91. When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.
Wangari Maathai
#92. Disagreement is not the conflict between one who says white and another who says black. It is the conflict between one who says white and another who also says white but does not understand the same thing by it.
Jacques Ranciere
#93. There is nothing too mysterious about Ray Porter, at least not in the usual sense of the word. He is single, he is kind, he tries to do the right thing, and he does not understand himself, or women, or his relationships with women.
Steve Martin
#94. He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
Maimonides
#95. Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
Lin Yutang
#96. All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
Thomas Paine
#97. If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Eugene Ionesco
#98. The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would. GOD
Jerry Bridges
#99. Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler
#100. We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand
Leo Tolstoy
