… naturally dull and stupid.
There's too little sense in the State Department of why things happened.
Have read little and understood less.
People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].
I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
It was very obvious to me that we could not do this, we could not run a country that we did not understand...it was very much amateur hour to me, with all respect.
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.
God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!
Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.
A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.
It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.
I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.
From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.
