Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“If you want to understand poetry,
You have to go to its origin,
If you want to understand the poet,
You have to go to the Poet’s home.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

““But it’s nonsense to think he’d care enough.”
“You mean you couldn’t understand his caring.
Oh, but you see he hadn’t had enough....””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)