• For me it’s not possible to forget, and I don’t understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.~ Jeanne Moreau
• I don’t pretend to understand the Universe — it’s a great deal bigger than I am.~ Thomas Carlyle
• I don’t understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.~ Richard Deupree
• I have always found women difficult. I don’t really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.~ Barbara Cartland
• If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else. ~ Nikki Giovanni
• I have written some poetry that I don’t understand myself.~ Carl Sandburg
• Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.~ Homer Simpson
• No, I don’t understand my husband’s theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.~ Elsa Einstein
• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.~ Malcolm De Chazal
• Parents, they’re strict on you when you’re little, and you don’t understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it. ~ Grant Hill
• Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing.~ Henry Jacobsen
• Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.~ C. S. Lewis
• That’s the thing about faith. If you don’t have it you can’t understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. ~ Major Kira Nerys
• The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them. ~ Lenny Bruce
• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don’t understand; no wonder they come to grief.~ Goethe
• There are two kinds of people in the world — those you love, and those you don’t understand. ~ Author Unknown
• The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.~ Bertolt Brecht
• This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there’s a layer of people who run everything. But we — we’re just peasants. We don’t understand what’s going on, and we can’t do anything.~ Doris Lessing
• When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.~ Helen Rowland
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• We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t understand our name at all, we don’t know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. ~ Milan Kundera
• You always admire what you really don’t understand.~  Eleanor Roosevelt

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