Top 100 Quotes About Not Understanding
#1. Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
Eraldo Banovac
#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. find it interesting that in history all one had to do to discredit a woman was label her a witch. How do we discredit a strong woman today?" The class stared back at Wilson, not understanding. And then it clicked. "You label her a bitch," I offered boldly. The
Amy Harmon
#4. Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
Fernand Leger
#5. But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.
Frederik Pohl
#6. I went back to look for you.
Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same.
Rod McKuen
#7. Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
Zhuangzi
#8. I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.
Carly Simon
#9. Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were supposedly truing to help - the poor and destitute.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#10. Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
#11. To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him.
Jamie George
#12. It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#13. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
#14. Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#15. And it seemed to me that existence was itself so very eccentric a legacy that I could not complain of not understanding the limitations of the vision when I did not understand the vision they limited.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
Aleister Crowley
#17. There's a lot I don't understand ... but not understanding is better not believing - Ambrose
Amy Harmon
#18. On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really uncomfortable - is a tendency to accuse people who are wary of vaccination of being stupid and not understanding science.
Eula Biss
#19. Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
Paz Vega
#20. It's like you live your life not understanding anything at all and then you find out there's a whole new subset of things you don't understand.
Heather Birrell
#21. The feeling of not being understood and of not understanding the world is no mere accompaniment of first passion, but its sole non-accidental cause. And the passion itself is a panic-stricken flight in which being together with the other means only a doubled solitude.
Robert Musil
#22. I used to make a basket of my hands to hold a feeling of joy that came upon me, then flatten my hands against my chest as if to make it part of me. Not understanding that it already was.
Elizabeth Berg
#23. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34
John Kay
#24. The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.
Alex Abreu
#25. It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.
Upton Sinclair
#26. If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.
Ryan North
#27. Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering
#28. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
#29. And yet we didn't believe it now that it was, and not because we really didn't believe it but because we no longer wanted it to be true, we had ended up not understanding what would become of us without him, what would become of our lives after him,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#30. Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."
She shifted her head, not understanding.
I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur.
John Fowles
#31. At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.
Teresa Of Avila
#32. Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
Ruby Dee
#33. People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
#34. I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.
Melissa Bank
#35. Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#36. My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.
Haruki Murakami
#38. I believe in the World as in a daisy.
Because I see it. But I don't think about it
Because thinking is not understanding ...
Fernando Pessoa
#39. I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.
Linda Grant
#40. In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.
Emir Kusturica
#42. The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
opinion about things I don't understand.
Gertrude Stein
#43. but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
Charles Bukowski
#44. I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
Tim Gunn
#45. She knew she had changed too, but not as they had changed, and it puzzled her. She sat and watched them and she felt herself an alien among them, as alien and lonely as if she had come from another world, speaking a language they did not understand and she not understanding theirs.
Margaret Mitchell
#46. All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great!
Dada Bhagwan
#47. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Naomi Klein
#48. I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.
Ozzy Osbourne
#49. An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
Maeve Binchy
#50. She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.
Jo Walton
#51. When you feel anger, it always means there is something you are not understanding.
M.G. Hawking
#52. When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
#53. You'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter.
Gregory Maguire
#54. Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.
Shulamith Firestone
#55. More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Richard Dawkins
#56. The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly - whether emotionally, intellectually, or financially. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36
Naomi Klein
#57. I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them
that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.
Leo Tolstoy
#58. Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
Anne Lamott
#59. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself.
Bruce Lee
#60. To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#61. My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.
Miles Franklin
#62. I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing.
Steve Bivans
#63. I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Alexander McQueen
#64. I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.
Ariel Pink
#65. Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live."
"Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling.
"Because winter is coming.
George R R Martin
#66. Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
Simon Sinek
#67. You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
#68. The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
Marshall Goldsmith
#69. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#70. What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
Henri Matisse
#71. Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not understanding her own bnoise; but the scholar hung upon her words, and believed them inspired, and did not know they were murmurings from a shell.
Ernest G. Henham
#72. I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.
Joe Frank
#73. Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
#74. I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
Leonid Hurwicz
#75. It's not the fat that's making you fat: it's not understanding separating carbohydrates from protein and fat.
Suzanne Somers
#76. George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.
Christopher Isherwood
#77. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.
Stephen King
#78. When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#79. I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.
Stacey Dash
#80. Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
Brenda Shoshanna
#81. If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#82. The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.
Charles Dickens
#83. People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding.
Romeo Miller
#84. Foreseeing is not understanding, else surely the prophecy latent in man would come oftener to the surface!
George MacDonald
#85. Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown.
S. Vagus
#86. I don't need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.
Bar Refaeli
#88. To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
Bodhidharma
#89. To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
Marc Chagall
#90. The captain gave the order to fire. Arcadio barely had time to put out his chest and raise his head, not understanding where the hot liquid that burned his thighs was pouring from.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#91. Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.
Maya Tiwari
#92. One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no.
Maria Canals Barrera
#93. There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
Fred Durst
#94. In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.
Rory Dunlop
#95. Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love.
Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world were by men, so what was she talking about?
Josh Lanyon
#96. Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Wallace Shawn
#97. Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.
Jim Highsmith
#98. If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey
#100. Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what "is written" are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it.
Finis Jennings Dake
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