Understood Quotes · Page 46

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

— Mark Twain

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

— Samuel Beckett

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

— Deepak Chopra

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

— Charles Alexander Eastman

The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.

— Cameron Conaway

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

— Marcus Sedgwick

I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue…

— Erma Bombeck

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to…

— Virginia Satir

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no…

— Ayn Rand

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in…

— Michael Korda

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

— Dalai Lama

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is…

— Cyril Connolly

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the…

— Thucydides

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that…

— Stephen Hawking

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human…

— David Dark

Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so…

— Jonathan Carroll

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…

— Ralph Ellison

As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom,…

— Michael Faraday

Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that…

— Alex Toth

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it…

— John Burdett

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family…

— Helmut Gernsheim

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

— Christopher Lasch

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

— Gayle Forman

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

— Carol P. Christ

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

— Amy Koppelman

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.

— Wilmer Valderrama

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

— Douglas Feaver

No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.

— Annie Wersching

I've never understood this idea of not shooting straight with people.

— Michael Avenatti

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

— Lisa See

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

— Glennon Doyle Melton

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

— Michael Behe

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

— Black Elk

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

— Ruth Park

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

— Gloria Whelan

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

— William Jennings Bryan