That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life but in a new way.
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence not as constraints on our power.
The more I have studied Lincoln the more I have followed his thought processes the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
And I'm walking along and we're laughing kidding joking and see he understood the leader the one we called the leader had some knowledge of English although limited.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense as a method for comprehending all observable reality and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
The appreciative smile the chuckle the soundless mirth so important to the success of comedy cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection as well as observation to appreciate it.
Truth is I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.