Top 100 We Don't Understand Quotes
#1. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Harry Browne
#2. Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
Sydney J. Harris
#3. We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Adam Driver
#4. It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
Carl Sagan
#7. In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Kenneth Branagh
#8. If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.
Rebecca Goldstein
#9. It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology.
Jim Sparks
#10. I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.
Mike Barnicle
#11. All life is sacred. Even life that comes in forms that we don't understand." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
John Jackson Miller
#12. Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don't understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#13. We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
Mercedes Ruehl
#14. Sometimes we don't understand right away why things happen. Sometimes we never understand. But that doesn't mean those things are mistakes." ~ Jake Samuels
Mary Manners
#15. We only hate what we don't understand.
Jo Knowles
#16. The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
#17. As for UFO's ... I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.
David Shuster
#18. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#19. I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.
James Roday
#20. We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
Nainoa Thompson
#22. My God is
the green tide in the spring leaves
the redness of cherries high in the air
the excitement of shooting stars
the song of birds in summer branches
the sunrise on a winter's morning
the name of everything we don't understand ...
William Of Ockham
#23. God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.
Jerry Bridges
#24. Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true - that aren't really how we feel - but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.
Jay Asher
#25. The key to a good friendship is in tolerating what we don't understand.
Zohreh Ghahremani
#26. The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it's lawless and we haven't worked out how to make it structured or moral.
Tom Hiddleston
#27. By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.
Jeff Goodell
#28. I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their own secret plan, even though we don't understand it .
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#29. You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.
Frederick Lenz
#30. When Charlie and I finish reading the long footnotes detailing the derivatives activities of major banks, the only thing we understand is that we don't understand how much risk the institution is running.
Warren Buffett
#31. When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.
Jennifer Lawrence
#32. Women invented misery,
but we don't understand it.
Rita Dove
#33. To say that something happened supernaturally is not just to say 'We don't understand it' but to say 'We will never understand it, so don't even try.
Richard Dawkins
#34. Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
Robert Breault
#35. If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself.
Anis Shivani
#36. The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#37. Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.
Anthony Zerbe
#38. It's time you realized that uncertainty is the perpetual lot of mortal creatures, and resigned yourself to being no better than the rest of us. We've no choice but to trust what we don't understand, accept what we can't believe and walk where there's no path we can see.
Ann Lawrence
#39. We fear what we don't understand and find serenity in what we're incapable of understanding..
Scott Hildreth
#40. It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight ... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.
Ann Shulgin
#42. When we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God
Jerry Bridges
#43. Knowledge is a house that must be built from the ground up. We know how to make the roof. The information is useless if we don't understand the foundations on which it is to be placed.
Nancy Farmer
#44. 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
#45. What we don't understand always scares us.
Leylah Attar
#46. Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don't understand, we tamper with until we destroy it.
Suzanne Young
#47. There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
William Boyd
#48. So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
Neil Gaiman
#49. We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
Jules Renard
#50. Our last day in Myrtle Beach until next year. By then we'll be all freaked out because we'll be full-blown teenagers with changing bodies we don't understand - so we need to enjoy life while we're still half-way kids.
Lady Jenniviere
#51. Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett
#52. True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.
Hank Hanegraaff
#53. There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness that comes because of that.
Alice Walker
#54. finding God or a higher power reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. There is much we don't understand about human existence, and there is order and purpose to it anyway. It helps us feel that our suffering is not random or meaningless." Yet
Sheryl Sandberg
#55. If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.
Joshua Lederberg
#56. There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.
John Carpenter
#57. We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.
David Shields
#58. You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#59. I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy
#60. Something clicked inside me at that moment. I stood outside of myself, realizing how easy it was to judge someone, to vilify and condemn the things we don't understand, because:
Leylah Attar
#61. Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan Chance
#62. The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,
Jack Kerouac
#63. But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
Elie Wiesel
#65. There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
Billy Graham
#66. We can become slaves to things we don't understand
Vernon Howard
#68. I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.
Billy Porter
#69. We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.
Wynton Marsalis
#70. All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.
Bob Proctor
#71. I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'Rourke
#72. You said that you would've taken back that day if you were given a chance. But I ask you why? All things happen for a reason, right? We don't understand the details of our lives because we're so busy living day to day. We need to take a few steps back and take the whole picture in.
Amy Astorga
#73. Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
Madeleine L'Engle
#74. Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.
Philip Pullman
#75. There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
Edward James Olmos
#76. We don't understand how much those small moments of closeness mean to us until they're taken away.
Cassia Leo
#77. I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.
Kirk Douglas
#78. There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.
Rachel Joyce
#79. One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
Michael Flanders
#80. Those monsters in your closets and under your beds? They are just as real as us. The difference is that we fear what we don't understand, while they understand exactly, what we fear.
Rob Shepherd
#81. But fates are connected in ways we don't understand.
Mitch Albom
#82. All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. But if we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us- we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don't understand.
Stephen Grosz
#83. Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [ ... ] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.
Raph Koster
#84. We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Hugh Leonard
#85. The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
Bill Joy
#86. We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.
Tsutomu Shimomura
#87. Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.
Christopher Barzak
#88. God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.
Steve Maraboli
#89. We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.
Richard P. Feynman
#90. I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
William Shatner
#91. If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
#92. I have great faith that there's a master plan and that even if we don't understand it and even if it's heartbreaking, there's a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.
Terri Irwin
#93. We all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.
Anton Chekhov
#94. We should never judge what we don't understand and we must never assume we understand until we truly do.
S.D. Tanner
#95. Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
Teresa Of Avila
#97. That's all there is to it. We look different, so we don't understand each other's inner thoughts, but we cherish each other in our own way. I respect you.
Sun-mi Hwang
#98. Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.
Todd Berger
#99. There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.
Lisa Lucas
#100. It's not about destiny," I said, "but I do think there's balance in the world, and sometimes forces we don't understand intervene to tip the scales the right way. Miss
Ransom Riggs
