Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“You are intricate tune;
endangering spark;
I don’t understand the ways of you,
nor why
your eyes should be dark.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“Hence anyone who seeks for the true cause of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them as a fool, is set down and denounced as a impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods.”
—Baruch (Benedict)