Understood Quotes

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea