Understood Quotes
2381 quotes by 1743 authors
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The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible…
— H.G. Wells
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My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.
— Gillian Flynn
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that…
— Gillian Flynn
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
— Clara Hughes
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No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
— Frank Norris
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Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and…
— Mike Michaud
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In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained…
— Georges Canguilhem
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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
— Vera Brittain
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Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an…
— Diane Nash
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Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.
— Mary Gaitskill
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There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for…
— Norman Thomas
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The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.
— Russell M. Nelson
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True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so please don’t hyperventilate…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more…
— Bill Gates
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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.
— Warren Buffett
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Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our…
— Edward Thorndike
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I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an…
— Sebastian Coe
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