Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke—it deprives a man of the best part of life ... with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him—literally.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

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