Understood Quotes

Science fiction is something I never understood.

— John Waters

I felt no one really understood me.

— James Bowen

To understand and be understood is to be free.

— Daniel Johnston

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

— Moliere

“You did not have to like it because you understood it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

— Amy Cuddy

My music is best understood by children and animals.

— Igor Stravinsky

“I wanted to hurt in a way I understood.”

— Mark Soluka

I just don't think there have been many people that have understood how important winning is to me.

— Jimmy Butler

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

— Jim Palmer

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

— John Updike

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

— R. Kelly

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what…

— Jonathan Majors

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

— Brenna Yovanoff

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

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

— David Crystal

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision…

— Black Elk

The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the…

— Maia Szalavitz

“He wouldn't have understood if I'd told him why I spend my time with criminals. He didn't know that I belonged with…

— Samantha Shannon

Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and…

— Richard Meier

Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine,' an enduring signal for when the world is failing to…

— Ephraim Mirvis

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks…

— Laurie Lee

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about…

— Alice Miller

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to…

— Kevin Powers

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to…

— Sigmund Freud

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I…

— Hannah Arendt

What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines:…

— John Rawls

I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have…

— Josh Peck

At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted…

— Mary Renault

America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who…

— Benjamin Carson

I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write…

— Richard Greenberg

Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the…

— Morihei Ueshiba

It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will…

— William Rawle

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing…

— Christopher Paolini

And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels…

— Pierre Clostermann

“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was…

— Judith Martin

When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have…

— Hannah Arendt

I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe…

— Robin Blaser

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.…

— Atul Gawande