“I don’t use people’s faults or flaws against them to win an argument, because they are not mine to use. Only thieves take things that don’t belong to them. But I do give the truth and that’s worth more than anything in the world. So listen to it. Understand it. And learn from it.”— Joanna Strafford, tumblr.com
“To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.”— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, quora.com
“You don’t really understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own version of the world.”— John Rogers, goodreads.com
“It’s far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”— Lionel Shriver, amazon.com
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.”— Angelina Jolie, en.wikiquote.org
“I should feel the air move against me and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual – we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.”— D. H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“If you had stars inside your brain cells you’d probably understand what I am talking about.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait... wait. I worry what you just heard was: Give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What I said was: Give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Do you understand?”— Greg Daniels, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com
“Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com