I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
Roy Lichtenstein

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
Edith Piaf

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
Edith Piaf

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Charles Kettering

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
Johnnie Cochran

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
Dennis Rodman

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
Dennis Rodman

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.
Rob Zombie

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni