Understood Quotes

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A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or… — Sol LeWitt
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. — Sonia Sotomayor
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. Itâ€™s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life — Emile M. Cioran
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. — Emile M. Cioran
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party that… — Rand Paul
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly. — Akira Kurosawa
An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth… — William Butler Yeats
[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the… — John Flavel
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. — John Milton
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener. — Oswald Chambers
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. — Carl Jung
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
At that time in my life I implicitly understood something that adults seem to have forgotton: that we do have control over our own bodies.… — Lorraine Moller
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up… — Jenny Han
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would… — Betty Eadie

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