Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“I have always found women difficult. I don’t really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”
—Barbara Cartland (b. 1901)

“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)

“I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)