Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“What you don’t understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)

“What’s the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)