Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“To understand the present, examine the past; without the past, there would be no present.”
—Chinese proverb.