Quotes About You Don't Understand

#1. Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.

Rob Liano

#2. If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.

Rick Santorum

#3. Don't invest in anything that you don't understand. Do your research first.

Paul Clitheroe

#4. You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment.

Gregory Benford

#6. Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

John Von Neumann

#7. When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.

Malcolm Forbes

#8. Today, if you don't understand the controller, you're not able to enjoy video games. ... We expect the Revolution [Wii] controller to become the standard in video game controls.

Satoru Iwata

#9. Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what's the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you're not at its mercy. When you don't understand, you're lost in the midst of it.

Stephen Levine

#10. The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

Peter Guber

#11. You don't understand," she said meekly. "Really? Okay, you're a special case then, are you? Unlike all the others in abusive relationships, your man really does love you. He's a good man deep down. Tells you he'll change.

Steve McHugh

#12. You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

Rob Sheffield

#13. No, not immeasurably: you have abilities, but there's a great deal you don't understand, because you're a low person.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

James Surowiecki

#15. The problem is you don't understand what the problem is.

Tim Kinsella

#16. There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

Assata Shakur

#17. It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.

Suze Orman

#18. I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Adam Jones

#19. You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Leonie Swann

#20. Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

Larry Niven

#21. You don't understand," I said, growing irritated. "I don't have the slightest idea what the Lethani really is! It's not a path, but it helps choose a path.It's the simplest way,but it is not easy to see.
Honestly,you people sound like drunk cartographers.
-Kvothe

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#23. You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Marvin Minsky

#24. Things you don't understand are not your world. Is it because of that you name them Religion and worship them?

Fereidoon Yazdi

#25. Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?

Alan Alda

#26. Bonnie Jean said, "You don't understand. Daddy's taking us away. To Nebraska." Bess Hartman looked at the mother,

Truman Capote

#27. You are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

Marcus Sakey

#28. That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

Elena Delle Donne

#29. A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

Mira Grant

#30. You don't understand - there are things worth dying for!

J.K. Rowling

#31. You don't understand. How could you? We were in the worst sort of hell. We weren't living day to day or even hour to hour. We survived minute by excruciating minute. The next day was an eternity away and we didn't want it. Death wasn't the enemy. It was our salvation.

Maya Banks

#32. What you don't understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don't believe. Hard lines.

Doris Lessing

#33. You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Peter Lynch

#34. What I'm trying to say is that you don't understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Clint Eastwood

#36. Faith is all about trusting God even when you don't understand His plan.

Joel Osteen

#37. Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

N. T. Wright

#38. John," I said, "when you get older, you're going to understand a lot of things you don't understand now." "You must mean nuclear physics," he said. "I can hardly wait.

Kurt Vonnegut

#39. It would be a great exercise for someone thinks they want to move to New York: Sit in an enclosed space full of fumes and hold hands with a stranger for twenty minutes while everyone around you speaks a language you don't understand, If you enjoy this, you will enjoy the 6 train.

Tina Fey

#40. Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Seth Godin

#41. You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's hidden all his life - which is hypocritical as hell after your ten years in Tirimo.

N.K. Jemisin

#42. The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Richard Saul Wurman

#43. If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.

Terrence McNally

#44. I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.

Steve Grand

#45. 1lb beefstak, with
1pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

Jerome K. Jerome

#46. It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

Regina King

#47. Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Henry Jacobsen

#48. You shouldn't assume everything you don't understand is a message,

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#49. If you don't understand and you love, that is not love; it is something else.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#50. Trust me," I said, "from one sociopath to another: if you don't understand the reason for something, it's always love." He

Dan Wells

#51. You hate because you are scared, and you fear because you don't understand.

Jo Treggiari

#52. You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you.

Harvey Penick

#53. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

Gene Siskel

#54. You will never have all the answers, Millie. You will always have to seek the Lord and trust Him with things you don't understand. But trusting Him comes easier the longer you walk with Him, the more you understand how good and faithful He is.

Martha Finley

#55. You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

Whittaker Chambers

#56. You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look

Iris Murdoch

#57. If you don't understand the WORD, you can't speak the WORD; instead, you will speak some words that are powerless against the enemy.

Tiffany Buckner-Kameni

#58. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Lemony Snicket

#59. When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

C.S. Lewis

#60. I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

R.J. Palacio

#61. That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#62. So, Carter, if you need to talk about anything, you know, about being gay. If there are things that you don't understand or things that confuse you, you can ask me. Anything. You can ask me anything."
Carter studied him for a moment and asked. "Who's your cell provider?

Marshall Thornton

#63. There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

Cesar Millan

#64. I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.

Billy Corgan

#65. It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Wislawa Szymborska

#66. You're not really an adult at all. You're just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don't understand.

Dylan Moran

#67. You can't share an emotional experience you don't understand. Accessing feelings brings you a step closer to using emotions more effectively in your relationship.

Brent A. Bradley

#68. I have to go," he said. "You don't understand. Someone wants to kill me.
"Someone wants to kill you?" she repeated. "Well, I want to make love to you. My goodness, Julian. With two such compelling alternatives, however will you choose?

Tessa Dare

#69. Trust me, from one sociopath to another: if you don't understand the reason for something, it's always love.

Dan Wells

#70. There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it

Madeleine L'Engle

#71. Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Russell Howard

#72. You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Eugenie Scott

#73. You don't understand the basic assumptions of your own culture if your own culture is the only culture you know.

Alan W. Watts

#74. So . . . I don't trust you and you don't understand me." He laughed despite himself. "No wonder we get along so well.

Sherry Thomas

#75. You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Judy Blume

#76. When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

Jostein Gaarder

#77. I don't want to be able to see thestrals, Scott. You don't understand the SITUATION. HERE.

Tylerfucklin

#78. You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

Sandra Bullock

#79. If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

Kevin Costner

#80. You shouldn't talk about things you don't understand. Which should leave you pretty damn quiet.

Rachel Vincent

#81. If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Richard P. Feynman

#82. One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

Henry James

#83. I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.

Ariel Sharon

#84. There is no end to the things you don't understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.

Shannon L. Alder

#85. Take a firm grasp on God's sovereignty and trust His love even when you don't understand His purpose.

Joyce Meyer

#86. Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them

Wendelin Van Draanen

#87. Would you like to know your fatal flaw?' Eddie flushed with annoyance. He could have easily made a list of Hochman's flaws, enough to fill several pages. Still, he was curious. 'Please do tell.' 'You judge what you don't understand.

Alice Hoffman

#88. You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

Adam Duritz

#89. Anything you don't understand, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

Carl Sagan

#90. Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

Jenny Lewis

#91. Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

William Zinsser

#92. Kate& Derek
"No, Kate, you don't understand. He vanished. He was there one moment and then he was gone."
I couldn't resist. "Like a ninja. In a puff of smoke.

Ilona Andrews

#93. I'm interested in [meteorology], but I'm more interested in gross misappropriations of the authoritative language of science. It feels rife with clarity, and yet you don't understand what it means. And I think that's beautiful.

Rivka Galchen

#94. Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

Leo Buscaglia

#95. An impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet

Matt Haig

#96. It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#97. In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann

Ray Kurzweil

#98. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don't understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he'll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last person alive, he'd say we needed the apocalypse and declare victory. It's what he is.

James S.A. Corey

#99. I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.

Joe Biden

#100. You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

Philippa Foot