Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“But if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“In trying to understand the appeal of best-sellers, it is well to remember that whistles can be made sounding certain notes which are clearly audible to dogs and other of the lower animals, though man is incapable of hearing them.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

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