Understood Quotes · Page 38

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

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

— Carl Jung

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

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

— Linda Crew

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life.…

— Todd Phillips

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood…

— Tony Evans

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting…

— Robert Lanza

I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by…

— Jean Vanier

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,…

— Harry Belafonte

“Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for…

— Truth Devour

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood…

— Mary Cheney

The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the…

— Edith Wharton

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the…

— Edith Wharton

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to…

— Charles Dickens

In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had…

— Neil MacGregor

I really loved my dogs. Everyone laughs at me for it, but it's true. The time I spent with them, running, hunting,…

— Marie Phillips

May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St.…

— John Wesley

The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly…

— Alex Shoumatoff

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

— Alexandra Styron

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It needs to be understood that global warming countermeasures could transform the economy and foster growth, not hinder it.

— Yoshihide Suga

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

— Tyler Perry

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

— Shinya Yamanaka

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

— Moliere

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

— Chris de Burgh

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

— Vin Diesel

“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”

— W. Somerset Maugham

It took so long to write 'Benjamin' that by the time we were shooting it, I understood what the film was about.

— Simon Amstell

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

— John McCain

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

— David Bohm

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never…

— Helmut Lang