Understanding Quotes
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"I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
“The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“though the interest of the labourer is strictly connected with that of the society, he is incapable either of comprehending that interest, or of understanding its connexion with his own. His condition leaves him no time to receive the necessary information, and his education and habits are commonly such as to render him unfit to judge, even though he was fully informed. In the public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard, and less regarded; except upon particular occasions, when his clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not for his, but their own particular purposes.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.
Quote by -Zhuangzi
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Quote by -Xenophon
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
Quote by -William Faulkner
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.
Quote by -Virginia Satir
I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.
Quote by -T. D Jakes
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?
Quote by -Tim Allen
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?
Quote by -Tim Allen
I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
Quote by -Jordan Peterson
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
Quote by -Junot Diaz
I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.
Quote by -Junot Diaz