Understood Quotes · Page 32

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

— Marvin Minsky

It is high time the TRS leaders understood the deceptive psyche of the Congress party and its leadership.

— Vijayashanti

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

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

— Patrick O'Brian

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

— Richard Selzer

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

— Richard Yates

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

— Johann Georg Hamann

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

— Oscar Wilde

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if…

— Sun Tzu

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown,…

— Anonymous

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of…

— Sasa Stanisic

The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not…

— Murray Gell-Mann

If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both…

— Dan Mangan

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention…

— Michelle Alexander

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me.…

— Ernest Hemingway

Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a…

— Lewis Carroll

To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States.…

— John Thain

We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I…

— Cecelia Ahern

“I don’t put up with the shit you’ve handed me the last week because you’re some fuckin’ piece I want to conquer.…

— Kristen Ashley

You've heard this phrase and I don't think I understood it until I was making 'Ted Lasso,' this thing of 'the sandbox.'…

— Brett Goldstein

In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a…

— Asa Butterfield

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a…

— Ian Fleming

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players…

— Bobby Fischer

“Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.”

— Unanimous

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

— Dallas Willard

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

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Arsenio Hall

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

— B. Joseph Pine II

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and…

— Martin Luther

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

“I've always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.”

— Stephan Talty

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

— William Monahan

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

— Simone Weil

I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive.

— Gretchen Carlson

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

— Lefty Gomez

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

— Gloria Vanderbilt