Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades—some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when—I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)