In proportion as the mind is more capable of understanding things by the third kind of knowledge, it desires more to understand things by that kind.
The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.
Although Abbe Rose was too innocent of heart to understand things clearly, he again shook his head and thought of the snares which the Devil is ever setting for men.
And this is one of the reasons why you will hardly understand things here at first.
As yet unable to understand things aright, Pierre nevertheless realised that discussion would be both discourteous and futile, and his only remaining desire was to give an account of his book, explain and vindicate it.
I always wanted to be just--and to understand things.
For however much man might have striven to understand things by means of wise perceptions, he could not draw wisdom from them unless it had first been put into them.
If man requires wisdom to understand things, and therefore gathers wisdom from them, this shows that there is wisdom in the things themselves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understand things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
