Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

“He who will hear, will find God; and he who will attempt to understand will also be forced to believe.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)

“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)