Understood Quotes · Page 23

I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you.…

— Chris Colfer

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of…

— Anonymous

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined…

— James Burnham

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood…

— Deb Caletti

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

— Michel de Montaigne

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing…

— Edward T. Hall

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny.…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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

— Edgar Saltus

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need…

— Charlie Chaplin

“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are…

— Adam Smith

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the…

— Moderata Fonte

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been…

— Werner Heisenberg

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor…

— Mona Eltahawy

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt…

— Andrea Bocelli

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as…

— Judith Butler

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user…

— John Sculley

And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.…

— Jørn Utzon

The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just…

— Serzh Sargsyan

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting…

— Oliver Kahn

The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by…

— Joyce Lee Malcolm

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of…

— Charlie Munger

The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even…

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith