Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“What one doesn’t understand one doesn’t possess.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“I understand the phrase “Honor the Women” all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)