Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.”
—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–80)

“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)

“It’s not that we want the political jobs themselves ... but they seem to be the only language the men understand. We don’t really want these $200 a year jobs. But the average man doesn’t understand working for a cause.”
—Jennie Carolyn Van Ness (b. c. 1890–?)