Understands

Famous quotes containing the word understands:

“She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“Even if it is given that someone understands the name ‘God’ to signify what is said, namely, ‘that than which a greater cannot be conceived,’ it does not follow that what is signified by this name exists in the nature of things, but only that it exists in the apprehension of the understanding.”
—Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)

“Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)