Understood Quotes

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood.

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

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 want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

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.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

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 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.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.