Understood Quotes

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I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It… — Marq de Villiers
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil… — Gautama Buddha
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did… — Teresa of Avila
If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart,… — Gautama Buddha
It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no absolutes, there is… — Serge King
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without… — Simon Barnes
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it… — Adyashanti
The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available… — William Wilson
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least… — Niklaus Wirth
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping… — Elizabeth Holtzman
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary… — Joe Conason
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics… — Carl Sagan
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose,… — Bertrand Russell
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone. — Sathya Sai Baba
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and… — Paul Robeson
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the… — Victor Hugo

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