Understood Quotes

...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.

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

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

To understand and be understood is to be free.

God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood.