Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“I can grouse about the food, and the C.O. and anything I blame please. And that’s more than you with your Gestapo and your storm troopers and your Aryan bourgeois. Ahhh, nuts. What’s the good of talking to you. You can’t even begin to understand democracy. We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.”
—Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
—Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969)

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