Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

    “I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.”
    —James Keir Hardie (1856–1915)

    “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)

    “What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man
    that looks in my face?
    Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
    We understand men do we not?
    What I promis’d without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
    What the study could not teach—what the preaching could
    not accomplish is accomplish’d, is it not?”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)