Understood Quotes

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

I believe that Donald Trump is someone who is not fully understood for how compassionate and what a great boss he is to women.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.