Understood Quotes

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery.