Understood Quotes · Page 25

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

— Van Morrison

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

— Adora Svitak

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

— Tim Wu

The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.

— Ben Domenech

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

— Quentin Crisp

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

— Peter Garrett

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

— Ted Kotcheff

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

— Robert Breault

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance…

— Ali Vincent

I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're…

— Martine Syms

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize…

— David Levithan

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

— Anson Mount

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was…

— Black Elk

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream,…

— Carl Jung

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship.…

— Emily Giffin

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a…

— Susan B. Anthony

I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to…

— Richard M. Nixon

All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals…

— Rick Perlstein

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are,…

— Anonymous

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a…

— Alan Alda

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief…

— Viktor E. Frankl

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that…

— Immortal Technique

We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as…

— Lauren Oliver

Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a…

— Leon Croizat

I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak-…

— Darren Hayes

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes…

— Paul Laffoley

In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,…

— Ruth Behar

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no…

— Albert J. Nock

All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art…

— Blaise Pascal

In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

I used to wonder how anyone could treat a fellow human as God. I never understood why they would do this.

— Mani Ratnam

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

— Ramana Maharshi

Don't try to understand everything. Because sometimes it's not meant to be understood, but to be accepted.

— Anonymous

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

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

— Chris Pine

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

— Timothy McVeigh

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

— Giordano Bruno

Nowhere else, perhaps, is the Quran recited so much and understood so little as in India.

— Naseeruddin Shah