Understood Quotes

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting — Annie Dillard
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is… — Susan Sontag
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
My music is best understood by children and animals. — Igor Stravinsky
Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood. — Thomas Carlyle
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it… — Arnold Schoenberg
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you… — Emile M. Cioran
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They… — Pope Leo XIII
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run… — Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius… — Daniel Dennett
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere… — Jeremy Rifkin
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to… — James Hansen
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield

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