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)

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)