Understood Quotes

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

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.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

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.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Information is only useful when it can be understood

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.