Understood Quotes

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

I understood that Valek’s loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.