Quotes about Understood

Women are made to be loved, not understood. Votes: 6

My music is best understood by children and animals. Votes: 6

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Votes: 6

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Votes: 6

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Votes: 6

Life can only be understood backwards. Votes: 4

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. Votes: 4

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Votes: 4

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Votes: 4

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well. Votes: 4

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. Votes: 4

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me Votes: 4

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. Votes: 4

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Votes: 4

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. Votes: 4

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. Votes: 4

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Votes: 4

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Votes: 4

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed Votes: 4

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. Votes: 4

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. Votes: 4

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. Votes: 4

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. Votes: 4

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Votes: 4

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. Votes: 4

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood? Votes: 3

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. Votes: 2

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. Votes: 2

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. Votes: 2

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Votes: 2

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. Votes: 2

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. Votes: 2

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. Votes: 2

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. Votes: 2

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. Votes: 2

All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. Votes: 2

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Votes: 2

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body. Votes: 2

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. Votes: 2

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. Votes: 2

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received. Votes: 2

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' Votes: 2

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. Votes: 2

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Votes: 2

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Votes: 2

The obvious is always least understood. Votes: 0

Learning is experience understood in tranquility. Votes: 0

What's lightly hid is deepest understood, Votes: 0

Have read little and understood less. Votes: 0

I'm not driven by being understood. Votes: 0

It's a luxury to be understood. Votes: 0

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously. Votes: 0

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. Votes: 0

Seek to understand rather than be understood. Votes: 0

Creation is great, and cannot be understood. Votes: 0

One day" came. Because finally I understood. Votes: 0

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood. Votes: 0

Seek first to understand before being understood. Votes: 0

I understood early that beauty was power. Votes: 0

Every moment is travel - if understood. Votes: 0

Being that can be understood is language. Votes: 0

To be understood is to prostitute oneself Votes: 0

I cannot be understood in three minutes. Votes: 0

It is a luxury to be understood. Votes: 0

I have never understood the Iowa caucus. Votes: 0

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. Votes: 0

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him. Votes: 0

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves. Votes: 0

Art is an international language, understood by all. Votes: 0

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. Votes: 0

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese. Votes: 0

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. Votes: 0

I don't expect to be understood at all. Votes: 0

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood. Votes: 0

I understood. I have understood. I do understand. Votes: 0

We fear only what we haven’t understood. Votes: 0

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others Votes: 0

Genius is never understood in its own time. Votes: 0

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist. Votes: 0

No one ever understood disaster until it came. Votes: 0

What is not fully understood is not possessed. Votes: 0

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment. Votes: 0

I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality. Votes: 0

Music was known and understood before words were spoken. Votes: 0

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party. Votes: 0

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted. Votes: 0

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all. Votes: 0

At least I had that, one guy understood me. Votes: 0

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. Votes: 0

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood. Votes: 0

One place understood helps us understand all places better Votes: 0

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. Votes: 0

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused. Votes: 0

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before Votes: 0

A God you understood would be less than yourself. Votes: 0

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood. Votes: 0

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Votes: 0

Honor is a term much used but little understood. Votes: 0

One has not understood until one has forgotten it. Votes: 0

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! Votes: 0

For those who are understood no need to explain Votes: 0

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. Votes: 0

Information is only useful when it can be understood Votes: 0

To understand and be understood is to be free. Votes: 0

The whole end of speech is to be understood. Votes: 0

If you understood him, it would not be God. Votes: 0

I never understood actors who could just wait around. Votes: 0

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile. Votes: 0

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself. Votes: 0

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. Votes: 0

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood. Votes: 0

All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood. Votes: 0

He understood. In lovesickness we had found a common language. Votes: 0

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind. Votes: 0

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. Votes: 0

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. Votes: 0

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature. Votes: 0

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! Votes: 0

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. Votes: 0

I understood from an early age what being competitive means. Votes: 0

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood. Votes: 0

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Votes: 0

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. Votes: 0

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Votes: 0

OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ? Votes: 0

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood. Votes: 0

We always speak well when we manage to be understood. Votes: 0

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. Votes: 0

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that. Votes: 0

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life. Votes: 0

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood. Votes: 0

The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught! Votes: 0

I write to understand as much as to be understood. Votes: 0

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness. Votes: 0

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. Votes: 0

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth. Votes: 0

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese. Votes: 0

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies, Votes: 0

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. Votes: 0

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Votes: 0

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it. Votes: 0

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. Votes: 0

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. Votes: 0

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process. Votes: 0

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. Votes: 0

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. Votes: 0

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. Votes: 0

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth! Votes: 0

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood. Votes: 0

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth. Votes: 0

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. Votes: 0

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. Votes: 0

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. Votes: 0

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it. Votes: 0

I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood. Votes: 0

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. Votes: 0

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood. Votes: 0

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth Votes: 0

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood. Votes: 0

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. Votes: 0

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God. Votes: 0

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. Votes: 0

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood. Votes: 0

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated Votes: 0

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. Votes: 0

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things. Votes: 0

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood. Votes: 0

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood. Votes: 0

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. Votes: 0

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. Votes: 0

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of "slave morality. Votes: 0

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves. Votes: 0

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. Votes: 0

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves. Votes: 0

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Votes: 0

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? Votes: 0

Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want. Votes: 0

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. Votes: 0

God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood. Votes: 0

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. Votes: 0

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown. Votes: 0

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. Votes: 0

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. Votes: 0

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. Votes: 0

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood. Votes: 0

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood. Votes: 0

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. Votes: 0

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. Votes: 0

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Votes: 0

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one. Votes: 0

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious. Votes: 0

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me. Votes: 0

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood. Votes: 0

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. Votes: 0

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. Votes: 0

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. Votes: 0

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. Votes: 0

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood. Votes: 0

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood. Votes: 0

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood Votes: 0

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good. Votes: 0

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life. Votes: 0

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed. Votes: 0

Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood. Votes: 0

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? Votes: 0

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. Votes: 0

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. Votes: 0

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated. Votes: 0

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents. Votes: 0

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood. Votes: 0

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood. Votes: 0

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over. Votes: 0

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw. Votes: 0

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. Votes: 0

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children. Votes: 0

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person. Votes: 0

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. Votes: 0

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. Votes: 0

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole... Votes: 0

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction. Votes: 0

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. Votes: 0

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure Votes: 0

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. Votes: 0

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. Votes: 0

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death. Votes: 0

John 1:5"Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it Votes: 0

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood. Votes: 0

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly. Votes: 0

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived. Votes: 0

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Votes: 0

It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom. Votes: 0

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood. Votes: 0

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. Votes: 0

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. Votes: 0

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Votes: 0

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood. Votes: 0

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom. Votes: 0

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. Votes: 0

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule. Votes: 0

I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood. Votes: 0

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" Votes: 0

Pain is not something to be feared; it is something to be understood. Votes: 0

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. Votes: 0

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. Votes: 0

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. Votes: 0

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. Votes: 0

In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood. Votes: 0

I couldn't speak enough Spanish. I couldn't make myself understood on that club. Votes: 0

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness. Votes: 0

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes Votes: 0

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems, Votes: 0

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood. Votes: 0

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done. Votes: 0

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. Votes: 0

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. Votes: 0

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth. Votes: 0

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. Votes: 0

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. Votes: 0

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. Votes: 0

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. Votes: 0

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood Votes: 0

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. Votes: 0

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. Votes: 0

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. Votes: 0

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. Votes: 0

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission. Votes: 0

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. Votes: 0

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television. Votes: 0

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish. Votes: 0

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Votes: 0

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. Votes: 0

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven. Votes: 0

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood. Votes: 0

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. Votes: 0

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances. Votes: 0

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed . Votes: 0

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. Votes: 0

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. Votes: 0

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not. Votes: 0

Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed. Votes: 0

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. Votes: 0

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood. Votes: 0

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. Votes: 0

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. Votes: 0

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. Votes: 0

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. Votes: 0

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. Votes: 0

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood. Votes: 0

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. Votes: 0

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! Votes: 0

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. Votes: 0

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood. Votes: 0

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood Votes: 0

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw. Votes: 0

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere. Votes: 0

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong Votes: 0

You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good. Votes: 0

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. Votes: 0

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. Votes: 0

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24) Votes: 0

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals, Votes: 0

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. Votes: 0

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Votes: 0

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. Votes: 0

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. Votes: 0

I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point. Votes: 0

I never really understood all the hype, until I got one of my own. Votes: 0

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. Votes: 0

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another. Votes: 0

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived. Votes: 0

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women. Votes: 0

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction. Votes: 0

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life. Votes: 0

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. Votes: 0

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. Votes: 0

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art. Votes: 0

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith. Votes: 0

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you. Votes: 0

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once. Votes: 0

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood. Votes: 0

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine. Votes: 0

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. Votes: 0

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him. Votes: 0

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view. Votes: 0

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute. Votes: 0

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface. Votes: 0

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion. Votes: 0

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. Votes: 0

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy Votes: 0

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood. Votes: 0

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... Votes: 0

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. Votes: 0

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. Votes: 0

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Votes: 0

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Votes: 0

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood. Votes: 0

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. Votes: 0

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. Votes: 0

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. Votes: 0

In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. Votes: 0

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words. Votes: 0

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing. Votes: 0

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account. Votes: 0

Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood? Votes: 0

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Votes: 0

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . Votes: 0

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good. Votes: 0

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. Votes: 0

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good. Votes: 0

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. Votes: 0

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way. Votes: 0

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind. Votes: 0

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives. Votes: 0

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. Votes: 0

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple. Votes: 0

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. Votes: 0

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men. Votes: 0

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood Votes: 0

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. Votes: 0

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon. Votes: 0

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. Votes: 0

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. Votes: 0

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. Votes: 0

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. Votes: 0

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. Votes: 0

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death. Votes: 0

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. Votes: 0

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him. Votes: 0

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office. Votes: 0

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. Votes: 0

If you truly understood the holiness of God, you would have a proper attitude about yourself. Votes: 0

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing from these alone will I be understood. Votes: 0

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists. Votes: 0

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. Votes: 0

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back. Votes: 0

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. Votes: 0

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. Votes: 0

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. Votes: 0

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. Votes: 0

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! Votes: 0

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place. Votes: 0

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. Votes: 0

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner. Votes: 0

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. Votes: 0

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. Votes: 0

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. Votes: 0

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words? Votes: 0

I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked. Votes: 0

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. Votes: 0

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. Votes: 0

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood. Votes: 0

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) Votes: 0

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. Votes: 0

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more. Votes: 0

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. Votes: 0

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion. Votes: 0

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. Votes: 0

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. Votes: 0

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists. Votes: 0

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed. Votes: 0

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood Votes: 0

one of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood Votes: 0

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had. Votes: 0

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood. Votes: 0

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. Votes: 0

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort. Votes: 0

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth. Votes: 0

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. Votes: 0

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood. Votes: 0

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. Votes: 0

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone. Votes: 0

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. Votes: 0

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. Votes: 0

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. Votes: 0

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years. Votes: 0

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. Votes: 0

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. Votes: 0

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time! Votes: 0

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. Votes: 0

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. Votes: 0

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. Votes: 0

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. Votes: 0

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. Votes: 0

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools. Votes: 0

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn"Ÿt believe it in my heart. Votes: 0

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time. Votes: 0

Are you a communist?No I am an anti-fascistFor a long time?Since I have understood fascism. Votes: 0

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. Votes: 0

...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price. Votes: 0

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. Votes: 0

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be. Votes: 0

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us. Votes: 0

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go? Votes: 0

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use? Votes: 0

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love. Votes: 0

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. Votes: 0

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. Votes: 0

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me. Votes: 0

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England. Votes: 0

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men. Votes: 0

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. Votes: 0

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. Votes: 0

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate. Votes: 0

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. Votes: 0

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. Votes: 0

Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. Votes: 0

It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head. Votes: 0

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself. Votes: 0

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion. Votes: 0

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. Votes: 0

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood. Votes: 0

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. Votes: 0

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was. Votes: 0

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense. Votes: 0

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. Votes: 0

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence. Votes: 0

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself. Votes: 0

Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other? Votes: 0

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. Votes: 0

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break Votes: 0

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. Votes: 0

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself. Votes: 0

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied. Votes: 0

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. Votes: 0

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' Votes: 0

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate. Votes: 0

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood. Votes: 0

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. Votes: 0

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. Votes: 0

A man does not care if somebody loves him or not. All he wants is to be understood. Votes: 0

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. Votes: 0

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning. Votes: 0

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. Votes: 0

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world. Votes: 0

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives. Votes: 0

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. Votes: 0

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do. Votes: 0

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood. Votes: 0

I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out. Votes: 0

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. Votes: 0

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. Votes: 0

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. Votes: 0

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. Votes: 0

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood. Votes: 0

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. Votes: 0

Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect. Votes: 0

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. Votes: 0

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them. Votes: 0

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. Votes: 0

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed. Votes: 0

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it. Votes: 0

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way. Votes: 0

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. Votes: 0

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood. Votes: 0