Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“...talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

“Jean Jacques Rousseau ... is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“Save your poems for those who can understand them.”
—Chinese proverb.