Understands

Famous quotes containing the word understands:

“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)