Understand Quotes

The universe is not made to suit man;

we must understand its laws.

Seek first to understand,

then to be understood.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A person who seeks to see the future

must first understand the present.

I just wish I could understand my father.

Dare to know!

Have the courage to use your own understanding.

I want everybody to understand that

I am an American Negro first before

I am a member of any political party.

I love my family very much.

I wish I could see them a little more often than I do.

But we understand because

we're a show business family and we all work.

Who hears me,

who understands me,

becomes mine,

a possession for all time.

God never gives someone

a gift they are not

capable of receiving.

If he gives us the gift

of Christmas, it is

because we all have the

ability to understand

and receive it.

I don't understand why the press is so interested

in speculating about my appearance,

anyway.

What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

Only if we understand can we care.

Only if we care will we help.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying

and preservation of the cargo,

and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo,

it should never be abandoned.

This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless

it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist,

without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

It ain't those parts of the Bible

that I can't understand that bother me,

it is the parts that I do understand.

Never invest in a business you cannot understand.

What I cannot create,

I do not understand.

Wide diversification is only required

when investors do not understand what they are doing.