Understood Quotes · Page 54

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot…

— Max Horkheimer

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be…

— Sheldon Richman

The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend…

— Danny K. Davis

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not…

— James Stephens

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor…

— Horace Mann

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

— Carol P. Christ

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines,…

— Adelina Sotnikova

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously…

— Georg Cantor

The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is…

— Michael Polanyi

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure…

— Viswanathan Anand

I understood because of his personality. [Donald Trump] is different. And for years the presidency has been like a smooth ride and…

— Jim Brown

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous…

— Isaac Asimov

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

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

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

— Ralph Ellison

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can…

— James A. Garfield

Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood…

— Paula McLain

When you're disabled, the bar is set so low for you. Even if people don't say it, you can tell by the…

— Alex Brooker

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

— Bjork

As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of…

— Richard A. Falk

My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Once we got to the…

— Regina King

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control…

— Noam Chomsky

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that…

— Linda Sue Park