A Quote by Carlos Fuentes

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

Carlos Fuentes

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

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

Carlos Fuentes

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.

Sonia Sotomayor

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

Novalis

To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.

Joan Didion

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

Steve Bannon

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

The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.

Moshe Arens

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

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Steve Bannon

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

Fritz Maytag

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

Lysander Spooner

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

John Roberts

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

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