Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,—for the root is faith,—I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)