Sentence examples for we only understand from inspiring English sources

They speak a language just beyond our understanding, but which is all the more powerful since we only understand it in parts.

Currently, we only understand the biological function of a fraction of human genes.

And perhaps our early experiences of music leave a mark that we only understand much later: at the age of 50 I wrote a book called Ways of Listening whose central premise was the continuity between music and the sounds of the everyday environment.

There is lots of evidence (as Craig Wynett of P&G would explain to you!) that we only understand the world through metaphor: without a metaphor, we can't understand anything.

Since Archytas evidently agreed with Philolaus that we only understand individual things in the world insofar as we grasp the numbers that govern them, it seems quite plausible that Archytas would regard logistic as the science that makes us wise about the world.

We only understand why the agent waved her hand why the effect is of the mental kind 'waving one's hand' (as opposed to merely 'one's hand going up and down' by citing mental properties of the causing event, such as her wanting to greet her friend.

Surely that is something all Americans would want, if we only understood how readily we might achieve it, how well worth the effort it is.

This is a puzzling result which we only understood after further analysis of the Hungarian innovation system in similar terms.

Let's try not to though, because we can get on great if we only understood each other better.

If it is true, as Baba Dioum, the Senegalese forestry engineer and environmentalist said, that "in the end we'll only conserve what we love, we'll only love what we understand, and we'll only understand what we're taught" then we must, at an early age, nurture a relationship with, and understanding of, the natural world.

We can only understand if we are listening.