Understood Quotes · Page 23

I never really understood why guys wear boxers underneath swim trunks.

— Nina Agdal

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

— C. Wright Mills

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

— Confucius

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other?”

— Linda Crew

“Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.”

— Alexandra Styron

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

— Philip Roth

“I understood somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.”

— Kate Morton

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing…

— Steven Soderbergh

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin…

— Patricia Briggs

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human…

— Tristan Tzara

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing.…

— Emeli Sande

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

— Martin Heidegger

I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but…

— Byron Katie

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death.…

— Zig Ziglar

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that…

— Mary Daly

[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she…

— Cynthia Rylant

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you…

— Byron Katie

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than…

— Robert Boyle

He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,…

— Betty Neels

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started…

— John Henrik Clarke

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified…

— Elton John

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves…

— Wendell Berry

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout…

— Saint Augustine

When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson…

— Bill Ayers

It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several…

— Richard Dawkins

Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the…

— Tertullian

I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is…

— Muhammad Iqbal

And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on…

— Constantin Stanislavski

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's…

— Criss Jami

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

— Jean Sibelius

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

— Paul Valery

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the…

— Markus Zusak

I never understood the importance of fans until we struggled and went through tough times.

— Kate Gosselin

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

— Jose Saramago

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

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

— Marilyn vos Savant