Understood Quotes

2381 quotes by 1743 authors

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that… — Barack Obama
Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. — Klaus Krippendorff
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not… — Samuel Johnson
In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in… — Richard Bach
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people… — Andrew Jackson
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously. — Aristotle
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains,… — William James
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had… — Henry A. Kissinger
As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise,… — Charles Koch
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass… — Anais Nin
I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided… — George Strait
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much… — Edward Sapir
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes… — Paulo Coelho
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would… — Kerry King
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. — Tristan Tzara
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned… — Marcus Borg
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean… — Kenneth Koch
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. — Markus Zusak
We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic… — Spencer W. Kimball

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