A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Jean Anouilh

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
Orville Wright

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
Gwyneth Paltrow

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Ayrton Senna

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
Werner Heisenberg

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
William Ames

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Moliere

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper