Understood Quotes

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.

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

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?

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 like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

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.

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.

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

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

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

I'm not driven by being understood.