Understood Quotes · Page 33

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

— George Orwell

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend…

— Thomas Hobbes

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

— Matthew Perry

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

— James Tupper

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

— David Dreman

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

— Elia Kazan

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers…

— Ron Paul

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite…

— Laozi

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to…

— Tom Brokaw

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions…

— Bertrand Russell

I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and…

— Jules Breton

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had…

— Pierre Bourdieu

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

— Jane Hamilton

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power…

— Francis Parkman

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s…

— CM Punk

Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when…

— Rami M. Shapiro

I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the…

— Salman Rushdie

I fully understood what I was doing when I shot the president. I realized that I was sacrificing my life. I am…

— Leon Czolgosz

From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was…

— Michael Mina

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really…

— Ann Brashares

The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it…

— Condoleezza Rice

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

— Plato

“I understood the meaning of the word swoon — I had become the very definition.”

— Lauren Blakely

“Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,”

— Flannery O'Connor

After 25 years in the profession, I have understood that being a reader or viewer is a task of great responsibility.

— Ravish Kumar

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like.

— Marina Abramovic

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

— Rebecca Hall

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

— Marshall Faulk

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.

— Seth

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

— Thomas Boswell

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

— Edward Sapir

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

— Young-Ha Kim

“perhaps the founders understood us better than we understand ourselves.”

— Michael S. Greve

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

— Rachel Dolezal

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

— Klaus Kinski

People support me because the Argentine people have understood that the other path is a road to misery.

— Javier Milei