#understand

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#define #i #me #mother #much

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#degree #freedom #hero #his #i

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#mistake #misunderstanding

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#been #get #great #him #human

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life. ↗

— Paz Vega

#because #communicate #i #life #much

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#amendment #dominates #energy #first #first amendment

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#little #only #those #understand #very

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?" [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ↗

— Susan Sontag

#choices #future #life #past #present

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#book #changed #could #diaper #every

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#explain #simply #understand #well #well enough