I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
Rudy Giuliani

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
Black Kettle

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.
Benny Hinn

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.
Paul Lynde

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Audie Murphy

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
Jimmy Page

A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
William Henry Harrison

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sam Levenson