Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
I don't understand the word 'hunk.'
What's wrong is wrong, and that's absolutely acceptable, and I understand that people get hurt by things that people say that are hurtful, and we should be able to say that when someone says something that hurts us, that it hurts us.
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.
One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
You have to immerse yourself into a product and use it in order to really understand it and that's why I have a new cellphone every month or two.
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren't prepared to understand that it's a complex piece of machinery.
We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is a big, important step.
We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.
