Paul Cezanne Quote

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

William Faulkner

We are taught how to see and understand the world.

Carlos Castaneda

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

• World
• Funny
• Famous

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

• World
• Wisdom

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

• Misfortune

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Andrzej Wajda

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Martin Scorsese

• Listening

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sagan

• Mind

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

Gisele Bundchen

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.

Paulo Coelho

• Man
• Love

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Suffering

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don't have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie.

Emir Kusturica

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Sean Connery

• Woman

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

Juliette Binoche

• Happiness

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

• Self-discovery
• World

I am a citizen of the world.

Demosthenes

• World