Sentence examples for understand to know from inspiring English sources

"That fraction of an instant of my passage in the doorway was all she needed from the far end of the table to see what she had to see of me, to understand, to know why I'd slunk home".

While foraging for information about Dad, all I've come to understand is how little I understand, to know how little I know.

More often today, the patients, better informed by the media, Internet or associations, want to understand, to know about their diseases and to reach a more balanced relationship with their doctor.

Like Grosseteste, Aquinas thinks that the causal capacities of things (their functions) must be understood to know what they are, but he sees no problem in working out how these forms do what they do within the actual world.

That is, science was concerned with enquiring into, and establishing, how it is possible to know or understand anything else: its goal was to understand understanding, to know what knowledge is and how it can be achieved.

But you don't have to understand netball to know how great it is to see this year's Australian player of the year back at the top.

We were that overjoyed not to understand, not to know what came next.

You have to really understand something – to know its real name – before you can control it.

Marco will "be a man one day," he tells her, "and he has to begin to understand women, to know that they're not to be trusted".

You need to understand history to know how Smith's assorted characters get to Cricklewood at the end of the 20th century.

Dr Maxwell is understood to have known nothing of the £600 million fraud.