Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)