Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer’s mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.”
—Denis Donoghue (b. 1928)