understood quotes

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 40:21.

If that was music, I have never understood what music was.

- Gabriel Urbain Faure 
   After attending the premi e' re of Debussy's Pelle  as et Me  lisande. Quoted in R Orledge Gabriel Faure   (1979).

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards.But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time simply because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand itbackwards.

- So«  ren Aabye Kierkegaard
Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru,1938).