Famous quotes containing the word understood:
“But [Jonas] quickly understood that a disciple was not necessarily someone who wishes to learn something. More often, on the contrary, one became a disciple for the unselfish pleasure of teaching ones master.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes regretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.”
—Guillaume-Prosper, Baron De Barante (17821866)
“How else is the famous short story A study in Abjection to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)