Understood Quotes · Page 92

For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. You say the…

— Muriel Barbery

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning…

— Matt Blaze

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how…

— Michael Dumontier

Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted…

— David Boaz

When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and…

— Robert Pattinson

I've never understood haute cuisine. I've never even understood spending in excess of 15 minutes - or $15 - procuring something to eat.

— Cord Jefferson

Entanglement can best be understood as this: When subatomic matter is in a process together, subsequently the subatomic particles go apart from…

— Edgar Mitchell

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— David Dreman

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict…

— Galileo Galilei

I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of…

— Juan Pablo Di Pace

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

— Maya Harris

I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the…

— Morihei Ueshiba

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

I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more…

— Judith Butler

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

— Margaret Atwood

Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

— Thomas Carlyle

“I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides”

— Daniel Willey

The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone…

— Pope Innocent III

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all…

— E. O. Wilson

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we…

— Tom Robbins