Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson

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.
Michael Jackson

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin Powell

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert Kennedy

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo Machiavelli