Top 100 To Understand Quotes
#1. I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman
#2. People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life.
Lama Surya Das
#3. With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
Louise Leakey
#4. As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.
Albert Schweitzer
#5. If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
Frank Delaney
#6. Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
Taylor Swift
#7. The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#8. I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments ...
James Elkins
#9. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.
Rebecca Taylor
#10. Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.
Melina Marchetta
#11. Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..
Dennis Ritchie
#12. If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
Abraham Zaleznik
#13. Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
Victor Pinchuk
#14. I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role. Every single role is important.
Bill O'Brien
#15. I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
Michael Shermer
#16. Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.
Megan Whalen Turner
#17. Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon Albarn
#18. Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
Albert Camus
#19. If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.
W. Brian Arthur
#20. To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.
Debasish Mridha
#21. What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.
Jodi Picoult
#22. I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#23. Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.
Clint Eastwood
#24. Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Einstein
Kate Messner
#25. With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.
Frederick Lenz
#26. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.
Anton Chekhov
#27. The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
Dan Beachy-Quick
#28. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus
#29. "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."
Stephen King
#30. You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. I am a scientist, I seek to understand me." Robert Pollard
Thad McKraken
#32. I believe that it is important for us to understand the reason why the enemy attacks the womb because it is then that we will have a more accurate way to pray against it and overcome it.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#33. If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.
Barbara Kingsolver
#34. Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something.
Stan Morris
#35. What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it's going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
Tony Abbott
#36. If God gave Dad Alzheimer's, He's got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.
Joanne Fluke
#37. When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.
Laurence Overmire
#38. The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
Jeff Sessions
#39. God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.
Wayne Stiles
#40. My dream was to ride a horse from Mongolia to Hungary, 10,000 km across the great Eurasian Steppe, and in doing so, come to understand the nomadic cultures that have presided there for thousands of years.
Tim Cope
#42. And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
Donald Miller
#44. Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
Edith Stein
#45. She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well.
Louis De Bernieres
#46. That awkward moment when you discover the guy you never wanted to know becomes the guy you want to understand.
R.K. Ryals
#47. [Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love and that it is a civil right.
Jennifer Beals
#48. We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Nhat Hanh
#49. The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake
Zig Ziglar
#50. On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington
#51. Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.
Jean Chretien
#52. We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.
Richard Riley
#53. When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
Joshua Lederberg
#54. I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
Richard Eyre
#55. For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.
Steve Blank
#56. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way.
Natalie Portman
#57. The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#58. Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think.
Timothy Pina
#59. To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
Jean Toomer
#60. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs
#61. How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.
Pope Francis
#62. It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
Don DeLillo
#63. It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
Colum McCann
#64. Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.
Frank Stella
#65. I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
Black Kettle
#66. To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
George Mallory
#67. You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
R.A. Salvatore
#68. It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.
Chuck Yeager
#69. Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.
Edward Bond
#70. It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.
Bertrand Russell
#71. When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
Gustave Moreau
#72. If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.
Paulo Coelho
#73. We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality ... the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.
Henry Louis Gates
#74. I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what's already been set in motion.
Michael Cunningham
#75. Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without these one] fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.
John Dewey
#76. Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.
Sebastian Coe
#77. Let's pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren't keeping me safe from you; they're keeping you safe from me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#78. Leadership is about relationships - whether it's a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.
Steve Knox
#79. Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Gautama Buddha
#80. We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it.
Victoria Schwab
#81. To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.
Asger Jorn
#82. When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
Lisel Mueller
#83. What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.
L.M. Montgomery
#84. No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens ... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
#85. The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood?
Stephen Richards
#86. Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.
Pope John Paul II
#87. The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
Louise Bourgeois
#88. He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.
Robert Galbraith
#89. Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything
Eric Stoltz
#90. As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable ... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
Ellen Stofan
#91. People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.
Laura Poitras
#92. You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of - oh, of your father.
Harper Lee
#93. We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
John Ashcroft
#94. You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.
Jonathan Glazer
#95. Guys I'm kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that's all just me being myself.
Darren Criss
#96. Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.
Rod Stryker
#97. When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you.
Paulo Coelho
#99. getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task.
Simon Blackburn
#100. We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho
