Understood Quotes · Page 44

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

— David Steindl-Rast

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

— R. D. Laing

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

— Trevor Paglen

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

— Alexander Pope

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

— Geoff Mulgan

Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.

— Rollo May

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

— Betty Eadie

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

— Amit Abraham

I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher…

— Jason Mitchell

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only…

— Ellsworth Huntington

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,…

— Jane Hirshfield

If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we…

— Timothy Keller

Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee…

— Jürgen Moltmann

When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming…

— Raquel Welch

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer…

— Rubem Alves

Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that…

— Jonathan Swift

i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and…

— Anonymous

Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's…

— Stephen Marche

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense…

— Virginia Postrel

I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly…

— Rhonda Byrne

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,…

— Abraham Lincoln

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The…

— Chuck Hagel

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would…

— Giordano Bruno

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

— Claude Monet

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

— Kellyanne Conway

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

— Anonymous

“I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.”

— Rachel Hartman

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

— Ravi Zacharias

I Am Responsible For What I Spoke, But Not For What You Understood...

— Pacifiersucker

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

— E. M. Forster

For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

— Daniel Clowes

“You would free yourself from so much stress and drama if you just understood and embraced the truth that you are enough.”

— Steve Maraboli

“You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

— Constantin Brancusi

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

— Julia Quinn

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

— Emile M. Cioran