He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Votes: 7
Elbert HubbardSeek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Votes: 4
Saint AugustineBut Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs. Votes: 4
Scott WalkerCriticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Votes: 4
Emile M. CioranAll minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other. Votes: 3
Lester LevensonThe Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! Votes: 3
Jennifer O'NeillFaith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. Votes: 3
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du DeffandCapable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. Votes: 3
Doris LessingMan does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. Votes: 3
Victor HugoYou know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you. Votes: 3
Moffat MachinguraThough [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonHe who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. Votes: 3
MichelangeloI don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job. Votes: 3
Stacey DashI roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciThere is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. Votes: 3
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Votes: 3
Frank HerbertNations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology. Votes: 3
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of FallodonWide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. Votes: 3
Warren BuffettPlease explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly. Votes: 3
Albert EinsteinWe are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. Votes: 3
Thomas FriedmanAnyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. Votes: 3
Thomas SowellWe are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. Votes: 3
Joseph ChamberlainHe who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality. Votes: 3
Jules MicheletThere's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing Votes: 3
Amy HarmonThe world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. Votes: 3
Dwight L. MoodyIf you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it. Votes: 3
Milton FriedmanUntil you are there, you might not understand the language and pains of poverty Votes: 3
Ikechukwu IzuakorYou'll be even better when you begin to understand what you do not understand. Votes: 3
John SheridanReligion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. Votes: 3
Frederick the GreatWe can not understand the visible problem until we go to the invisible one. Votes: 3
Randall CollinsI cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry. Votes: 3
Thomas AquinasHe who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciIt was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. Votes: 3
Arthur C. ClarkeReligion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Votes: 3
Karl MarxI did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult. Votes: 3
Quentin S. CrispYou can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. Votes: 3
Upton SinclairCreative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts. Votes: 3
Henry HeimlichThey do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Votes: 3
Camille PagliaWomen are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand Votes: 3
William CongreveHere is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. Votes: 3
Thomas MertonWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. Votes: 3
William Butler YeatsWriting has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. Votes: 3
Rosario CastellanosIn our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it. Votes: 3
Radhanath SwamiWorry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me. Votes: 3
Neale Donald WalschMusic falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand. Votes: 3
Wallace StevensWe must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. Votes: 3
Jean RostandYou cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. Votes: 3
Dieter RamsI always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand. Votes: 3
Carolina HerreraThe people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonEveryone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. Votes: 3
Duke EllingtonI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Votes: 3
Richard Dawkinsactions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. Votes: 3
Andre GideI see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable! Votes: 3
Robert LudlumIf you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. Votes: 3
Oprah WinfreyYou are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. Votes: 3
Antonio Porchiathere they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheIt is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciI do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroSome fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do. Votes: 3
Theodore von KarmanYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciI do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world. Votes: 3
Henning MankellMost people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young. Votes: 3
PlutarchMa petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it. Votes: 3
Laurell K. HamiltonI finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die! Votes: 3
Javad AlizadehI do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties. Votes: 3
Milos ZemanWe must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand. Votes: 3
Steve LawsonWe humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves. Votes: 3
Gerald HausmanSome do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. Votes: 3
Gautama BuddhaYou do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others. Votes: 3
John SearleIf I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking. Votes: 3
Jiddu KrishnamurtiDamn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things. Votes: 3
Alexander RodchenkoThe experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. Votes: 3
Claude BernardI do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. Votes: 3
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsIt would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. Votes: 3
John SteinbeckOne of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes. Votes: 3
Desi ArnazDo not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others. Votes: 3
ConfuciusIf you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. Votes: 3
Alan GreenspanAnyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. Votes: 3
Lin YutangIf we do not understand our sin, we will not understand the kind of savior we need. Votes: 3
Robert GodfreyAs for me, I cannot understand how it is possible not to be always thinking of God. Votes: 3
Paul of the CrossSome people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway. Votes: 3
Sheila WalshWe simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it. Votes: 3
Barry LopezI don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand. Votes: 3
Heidi W. DurrowIf you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing. Votes: 3
Masaaki HatsumiI do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. Votes: 3
Italo CalvinoI do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds. Votes: 3
Jaggi VasudevWhat avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauI could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not. Votes: 3
Robin WrightI acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it. Votes: 3
Thomas S. MonsonNorth Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis. Votes: 3
Shirin EbadiNot knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men? Votes: 3
ConfuciusHe who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. Votes: 3
Khalil GibranThere are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them. Votes: 3
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. Votes: 3
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyI still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies. Votes: 3
Jon StewartYour saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve. Votes: 3
Khalil GibranHe who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog. Votes: 3
MaimonidesMusic is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God. Votes: 3
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPeople do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am. Votes: 3
Miley CyrusTo claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. Votes: 3
Ursula K. Le GuinI don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.
Keshia Knight PulliamIf you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
Stanislaw Jerzy LecShall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver HeavisideI will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.
Anthony JeselnikIt's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.
Leonardo da VinciHow embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
Abraham Joshua HeschelTo understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
Andre MalrauxMagic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
Harry Houdinito be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris MurdochNonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
Mahatma GandhiIntellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
Nirmala SrivastavaI don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.
Spike JonzeI understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.
Jerri NielsenGod will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
Balian of IbelinYou have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
Doris LessingIt is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.
Edward AbbeyI don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.
Karl LagerfeldPlease do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this
Lee Kuan YewThe key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand.
Richard Saul WurmanWhat you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.
Andre Wardhe was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
Mikhail BulgakovI was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
Richard WrightThe people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
ConfuciusIf you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
Friedrich NietzscheIt took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.
Luis Gerardo MendezWe do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.
Neil L. AndersenOne should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QuintilianWell I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.
Ray DaviesIt's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.
Robert Anton WilsonWe think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThis idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
Fran LebowitzI understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.
Jared LetoIf you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.
Leonard JacobsonIf you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.
Morihei UeshibaAnybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
Niels BohrI'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.
Denzel WashingtonChildren understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
Hayao MiyazakiLove is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.
Jacque FrescoArt is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
Robert BreaultIf I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.
Vijay SinghAmericans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaDo not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.
Jason EllisIrony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.
Justin VernonWhat part of no don't you understand. To put it plain and simple, I'm not into one night stands.
Lorrie MorganI think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
Meshell NdegeocelloGod is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
Saint AugustineYou do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.
Frederick BuechnerI'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.
Mark T BertoliniHumans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.
Roger SchankYou must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.
W. Edwards DemingI don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
William WeldYour talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Flann O'BrienWe have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
Jean Dieudonnewhen driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria EdgeworthGod will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.
T. D. JakesGrieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
HafezIf the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...
Aldo LeopoldTo understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellThe question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
John K. FairbankWe're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
Michael LeiterI have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.
Narendra ModiI'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Thomas NagelWe can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
Wendell Berry