Understood Quotes
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.
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.
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
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The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.
If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today, I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.
What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self.
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.
Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.
Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.
From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.
Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.
Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.
I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.