I myself have never understood anything, or anyone, and I have never tried.
He warned: "Basically my mother has never understood anything about what I am; she never understood my father either".
"And do you know a funny thing?" screams Emily at her nephew, on the last page of the book, "I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life".
Scotus holds (just as Aquinas had held) that the human intellect never understands anything without turning towards phantasms (Lectura 2, d. 3, pars 2, q. 1, n. 255).
PARENTS: There are only two things you need to know about your parents: (1) they are more reasonable than you think, and (2) they will never, ever understand anything about you (and it is unreasonable for you to expect otherwise).
"Grownups never seem to understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them".
"No one who had ever seen Catherine in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine… She never could learn or understand anything before she was taught: and sometimes not even then".
At the beginning my husband's sister said, you do not understand Italian, you do not understand anything, and above all you have never not done business, so partnership is the way to do it.
Did I understand anything?
He doesn't understand anything".
