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Understand Quotes (page 65)

I understand too well the dreadful act. I'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do. Euripides
I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song. Taylor Swift
He wished he knew what to say to make her feel better, but the truth was, he didn’t feel all that great himself and he didn’t know if there were even any words in the English language to take away this kind of stunning shock, this understanding that the world isn’t the place you thought it was. Jodi Picoult
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as wanting, that is, he is conscious of his will. And his will, which constitutes the essence of his life, man is conscious of and cannot be conscious of otherwise than as free. Leo Tolstoy
Albert Einstein quote: "The most amazing thing about the world is that we understand it."
The most amazing thing about the world is that we understand it. Albert Einstein
For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic. Harper Lee
Jodi Picoult quote: "Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the..."
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. Jodi Picoult
What is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts. Friedrich Nietzsche
if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them. Jodi Picoult
George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy. Christopher Isherwood
... Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals. David Sedaris
Virginia C. Andrews quote: "Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why..."
Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears. Virginia C. Andrews
When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point... R. Buckminster Fuller
Audre Lorde quote: "We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other..."
We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created. Audre Lorde
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote: "If you begin to understand what you are without trying to..."
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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