Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

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

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, that we can understand our past through a male lens—if we are unaware that women even have a history—we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)