Understood Quotes
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.
If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.
Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.
We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.
I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.