Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. Carl Sagan
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. Dave Pelzer
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. Haldan Keffer Hartline
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff. Mary Barra
I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. George C. Marshall
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself. Gregory Meeks