Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“...talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

“Listening to learn isn’t about giving advice—at least not until asked—but about trying to understand exactly what someone means, how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter’s growing and changing self.”
—Elizabeth Debold (20th century)