A Quote by Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

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America Best Does Itself Others Understand Worst

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Carlos Fuentes
Mexican - Novelist
November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

Steve Bannon

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Novalis

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.

Hodding Carter III

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

Fulton J. Sheen

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand [...]' 'But then the world does not matter.' 'Indeed it does not [...] It is good to understand that.

David Gemmell

Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

Fritz Maytag

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The most important thing to understand about Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement is, whilst it undeniably damages the rest of the world, it does most damage to America itself.

Barry Gardiner

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Standing Bear

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Georg Brandes

The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of secrecy and revelation, you need to understand the larger culture in which the couple lives and also the culture of the couple itself. What does intimacy mean to them? Where does the couple draw the line between togetherness and separateness? That's what informs you. You always ask, "What would happen if I tell? What would happen if I don't tell?" Sometimes, the partner doesn't want to know.