Top 100 Understand You Quotes
#1. I am not sure whether I altogether understand you. You make me curious. I don't much care about talking, but I should like to talk to you.
Andre Gide
#2. What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. Photograph speaks every language; wisdom speaks every language; goodness speaks every language; love speaks every language! Always try to do the things that speak every language so that all will understand you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's
boring
Seymour Papert
#5. As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#6. Lena's voice grew cold. "I don't understand you. I don't understand people like you, who always choose to blame the woman. If there's two people doing something wrong and one of them's a girl, it's got to be her fault, right?
Paula Hawkins
#7. The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
Will Rogers
#8. If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so ... there wouldn't be any point to be by your side ... - kakeru manabe
Natsuki Takaya
#9. You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
Jim Henson
#10. If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.
Julie Berry
#11. Just because you can't understand me, doesn't mean I can't understand you
Brent Hartinger
#12. Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?"
Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.
Louise Rennison
#13. Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.
Lewis Carroll
#14. If that is scary I really don't understand you, the idea is the lesson.
Deyth Banger
#15. If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid.
M.F. Moonzajer
#16. I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect.
Hermann Hesse
#17. Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
Magnus Scheving
#18. Somethings you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them.
Gayle Forman
#20. Nature is always talking to you, smiling to you, and singing to you. To understand, you just have to be open to listen with your heart and soul.
Debasish Mridha
#22. The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
Edward Abbey
#23. Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!
Muhammad
#24. If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Martha Beck
#25. I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.
Charles Manson
#27. And I understand you've got a few after-market add-ons - " "Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful. The
James S.A. Corey
#28. I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.
Geraldo Rivera
#29. 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
#30. I'm falling for you so hard that I can feel the scrapes on my knees as I'm brought to them. I understand you are scared because I'm absolutely terrified, but I'm not going to hurt you or kick you when you're down.
Ella Frank
#31. My help - it's not a light switch you can turn on and off. My help starts right now, and after this point you don't get to tell me that you don't want it anymore. Understand? You had a chance to walk away, Alice, and you didn't take it. Now it's time to play the game.
Elle Lothlorien
#32. I know that look. It comes in the quiet moments, like this one. I know you're thinking that this is all your fault and that I would be better off without you. But here's the thing you need to understand. You are my peace and my home. You are the everything. The pain isn't real. The hearts are.
Brodi Ashton
#33. I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself.
Deyth Banger
#34. We play your part in order to understand you, but you each seem to play a thousand parts. It makes things difficult for an honest, hard-working bug-eyed monster.
Larry Niven
#35. I'm not sure I understand you," she said. "Are you telling me you saved my life because you were angry with me?" The idea struck me funny. "Yes," I said, trying not to smile. "Furious." "Furious?" "Enraged," I said. "Oh dear." And then she smiled.
Catherine M. Wilson
#36. You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.
Leonie Swann
#38. The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There's no sense in trying.
Bob Dylan
#39. He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.
Hal Borland
#40. He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
Thomas Harris
#41. Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships, where you might want your partner not just to care about you or understand you but to feel what you feel.
Paul Bloom
#42. I understand you've been spending some time in the company of my son." Adam's father had a disconcerting stare. His eyes were hazel, close in color to my own, but there was an uncanny awareness in them - like he knew what you'd had for breakfast that morning and how you would sleep that night.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#43. Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never seemed to understand you. But as you grow up you find others like yourself, people who support you, embrace your weirdness, and love for who you are - and they become your new family." - Tara
Elizabeth Briggs
#44. You have to know languages when you go to sell something," she said with mocking laughter. "But when you go to buy, everyone does what he must to understand you.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#45. I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you
better than anyone else in the world ever can.
Haruki Murakami
#46. I'm never going to understand the Barrani."
"You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either."
"Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.
Michelle Sagara West
#47. Every tiny, happy thing makes me want to share it with you," he went on, leaning forward. "I thought I would get over this, but I can't, and I'm done trying. I understand you like no one else here ever can."
-Leon Grey
Caragh M. O'Brien
#48. They were the truth, so far as I can see."
"But you cannot see very far, and what you do see you do not understand. You do not know the truth.
Shannon McDermott
#49. One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
Lydia Ko
#50. I don't expect you to understand. You're only a magnet for mishap, Miss Mitchell, while I am a magnet for sin.
Sylvain Reynard
#51. People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.
Amit Abraham
#52. I stand back from him. I don't understand. You've seen parts of me that are not perfect, and you still love me?
Liza Palmer
#53. Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.
Ian Warner
#54. When you give feedback, make sure to be specific. I didn't understand you when you explained the chart or walked me through the steps of...
Assegid Habtewold
#55. To gain knowledge, you may simply observe, but to truly understand, you must experience.
M.P. Sharma
#56. You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
John Green
#57. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
Alice Hoffman
#58. There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
Bjork
#59. I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
#60. To do the right thing you must sometimes defend people who don't understand you, or who fear you, or who are angry at you. There are times when you have to operate purely on faith and continue to trust human decency even when it is no longer visible.
G. Willow Wilson
#61. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.
Travis Bradberry
#62. Please don't tell her i told you. I know how much you love her, Hardy, and i know the reason she didn't want you to know is because she loves you, too. I've never seen two people your age feel so deeply about each other. I understand you needing to know, but she would never forgive me.
M. Leighton
#63. What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger ... a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!
Billy Connolly
#64. I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Cary Elwes
#65. Macke went to the door. He looked at the three women: the maid, the wife, and the daughter. "All this trouble," he said, "for the sake of an eight-year-old moron. I will never understand you people.
Ken Follett
#66. There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.
M.F. Moonzajer
#67. Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.
Bill Linderman
#68. If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
Robert Smith
#69. I understand. That's the trouble. I understand. I'll understand all the time. All day and all night. Especially all night. I'll understand. You don't have to worry about that.
Ernest Hemingway,
#70. Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Thomas Harris
#71. 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
#72. I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.
Milan Kundera
#73. I don't understand you. You could have handed over the slave and been free. (Paden)
Freedom bought on the back of a loved one isn't worth shit. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#74. I'm not expressing myself very well - '
'Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that's the problem -
David Nicholls
#75. I [Pigpen] grew up in their clubhouse. I understand you because I am you. I also learned to crawl on the sticky floors of where guys made their oaths. But here's the difference, I grew up watching people make stupid mistakes in the name of revenge.
Katie McGarry
#76. On one occasion, in the middle of an intimate talk, Mao leaned over and whispered in the Dalai Lama's ear, "I understand you very well, but of course religion is poison.
John Avedon
#77. Every flower is telling you the secrets of life; to understand, you have to listen to them with your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#78. I have learnt that trusting another takes a leap of faith; taking a risk and putting emotions on the line. This is in the hope that the other will accept and understand you.
Aisha Mirza
#79. I love you. I don't always understand you, but I love you.
Janet Gurtler
#80. You have no enemy, but you have a friend who doesn't yet understand you.
Debasish Mridha
#81. It's the principle of the thing, Jess . That's what you've got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise they turn into tyrants and dictators.
Katherine Paterson
#82. As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Paul Emsley
#83. I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
Jonathan Winters
#85. If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
Tavi Gevinson
#86. The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you.
Ken Poirot
#87. The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.
Leighton Meester
#88. I understand you. I know you love me. I wish you were there.
Auliq Ice
#89. So you don't love him. Why would you look for
love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
Catherynne M Valente
#91. I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.
Kyrsten Sinema
#92. Okeydokey." "I think I liked you better when I didn't understand you.
Wendy Mass
#93. Oh that's right
Keep away from me Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you Don't realise me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you --- you --- me
Mina Loy
#94. To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.
Debasish Mridha
#95. A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
#97. I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.
Rajneesh
#98. When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.
Betty Sue Flowers
#99. I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.
Narendra Modi
#100. No one deserves you like I do." ...
"No one sees you like I do." ...
"No one understand you the way I do." ...
"No one makes your heart beat like I do." ...
He presses his palm against my heart. "And no one else deserves to be inside you if they can't get there here first.
Colleen Hoover
