Sentence examples for understood to know from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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

Tony Blair is understood to have known the Kazakh leader since 2001.

Hardy, a distinguished Cambridge scholar, initially considered this confusing document the work of a crank, but he understood enough to know he wanted to know more.

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".