Top 100 Understand It Quotes
#1. We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
Richard Matheson
#3. Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.
Norman Lock
#4. Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
James Taylor
#5. I know how long it took me to lose my weight, and people have got to understand it?s not always easy. If all this can help one child, we are doing our job.
Jared Fogle
#6. If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
#7. analytically; or even to defend it upon grounds of reason. The keen Dr. South expresses the common sentiment, when he remarks that "as he that denies this fundamental article of the Christian religion may lose his soul, so he that much strives to understand it may lose his wits.
Augustine Of Hippo
#8. Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.
Rick Wagoner
#9. Tao is so important because it is connected to all the life forms - it's related to the whole universe. Nobody can say, "Tao has nothing to do with me. Why should I try to understand it?" because actually, Tao has everything to do with us.
Henry Chang
#10. I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?
Michael Shaara
#11. But have you ever seen one? ... They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this passage - "
Man, she liked that Bible. I'd read it and could definitely understand it's appeal, but I didn't have time for this.
Darynda Jones
#12. I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.
Jared Leto
#13. I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.
Benicio Del Toro
#14. Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
Hanya Yanagihara
#15. There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.
Ajahn Amaro
#16. 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
#17. Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
Jean Toomer
#18. People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.
Marilynne Robinson
#19. Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
Niels Bohr
#20. I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.
Bill Nye
#21. I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
Alan Alda
#22. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
Ted Dekker
#23. Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Susan Choi
#24. Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
Garth Nix
#25. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related. The
William Gibson
#26. How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
How can I come this far and not be brave?
Gayle Forman
#27. That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Galway Kinnell
#28. There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.
Lolo Jones
#29. It's just, well, I can't stand it when someone's unfair to Mr. Wolflaw, because he's really so ... he's so incredible." "I understand. It really steams me when people say bad things about Vladimir Putin.
Dean Koontz
#30. I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
Mark Twain
#31. Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
Anselm Kiefer
#32. Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.
Sloane Crosley
#33. They said no, she can't make it. They said everything's closed. And I said you don't know Ann. And then he drifted off to sleep. Explain doubt to me, because at that moment I ceased to understand it. In return I will tell you everything I know about love.
Ann Patchett
#34. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
Kathleen Hale
#35. Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
Tupac Shakur
#36. I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
Yehuda Amichai
#37. 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
#38. Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.
Byron Katie
#39. I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
Eddie Guerrero
#41. It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
Anne Parillaud
#42. Code should be written to minimize the time it would take for someone else to understand it.
Dustin Boswell
#43. 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
Ira Sachs
#44. If I don't understand it, it must be art.
Bono
#45. You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
Confucius
#46. But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.
Geoffrey Rush
#47. Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
Aaron Spelling
#48. A man said to Maharajji, "You've promised for years to visit my home and you have never come. I'm not going to come to see you anymore, because you won't visit my home." Maharajji said, "Oh, I didn't understand! It's your home. I had thought it was my home and so I didn't need to visit.
Ram Dass
#49. God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
Robert Boyle
#50. Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its own story to explain diseases.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#51. Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
Wen Jiabao
#52. Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
Jean Genet
#53. Is there not perhaps a contradiction between our feeling of freedom and the rigor, as we now understand it, with which things operate in the world?
Carlo Rovelli
#54. But secrets can also keep things precious. Private. That's what can be hard for people to understand. It can be nice to have something you don't share with the world. -Bridgette
Michele Jaffe
#55. Exegesis says, "Before you can hear it with your ears, hear it with theirs. Before you can understand it today, understand it back then.
Jen Wilkin
#56. I've found that letting something stay broken for a little while helps me understand it.
Jennifer Castle
#57. If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand it after all.
Jostein Gaarder
#58. Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.
Benjamin Peirce
#59. Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle.
She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have.
I guess that makes sense.
Bill Watterson
#60. Never ... stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.
Judith Rodin
#61. The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
Michele Weiner-Davis
#63. Maybe if I smiled more when I made jokes, he thought idly, leaning against the side of the barricade. Then they'd understand what I meant. That, of course, raised the question: Did he want people to understand? It was often more amusing the other way. Besides, smiling was so garish.
Robert Jordan
#64. If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
Jostein Gaarder
#65. She looked that word up too, hoping to understand it, as understanding gave her power over things.
Seth Dickinson
#66. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.
George Orwell
#67. The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language - star-talk.
L.P. Hartley
#68. There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.
Douglas Wakiihuri
#69. Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.
Isabel Allende
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.
Joshua Bell
#73. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
E.B. White
#74. And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.
Aldous Huxley
#75. The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.
Neil Young
#76. By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#77. ... but how come I can give advice and cheer up other people, but I can't do that with my own life. I don't understand it.
Rae Earl
#78. There's a whole world out there, even if I don't understand it
Francesc Miralles
#79. Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.
Boris Fishman
#80. Heaven is not so terribly different from this present existence to where we can't even comprehend or understand it. Otherwise, when we arrived there, we would be completely lost and we wouldn't be able to relate to it.
David Berg
#81. I was never educated on the topic of alcoholism. I had to go through it, to understand it
Jim Serger
#82. When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
Joel Siegel
#83. How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#84. I just think this whole thing about not wearing anything twice, I just don't understand it. I think things should be worn. You should bond with your clothing. It should be yours.
Alexandra Kotur
#85. All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn't understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.
Helen Oyeyemi
#86. If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
Michel Gondry
#88. My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.
Lou Doillon
#89. Scout: Why are you entrusting us your deepest secret?
Mr. Raymond: Because you're children and you can understand it.
Harper Lee
#90. You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this.
Anne Lamott
#91. The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Daniel Barenboim
#92. Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die.
Abigail Haas
#93. Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.
Linda Hawley
#94. How can we assert and test hypotheses if there are no such things as assertions that can be evaluated as true or false? How can we design experiments if there is not such thing as design? How can we explain anything if we do not assert anything and if others cannot understand it?
Angus J.L. Menuge
#95. The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.
Carl Sagan
#96. Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.
Jose Maria Aznar
#97. The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.
Billy Graham
#98. I don't understand it. Addiction. The pull or the control, the want or the need.
Marissa Carmel
#99. 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
#100. 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
