Understood Quotes

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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language… — Carl Maria von Weber
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg
I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. — Jean Gabin
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. — Sydney Schanberg
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term… — Moses Mendelssohn
I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over,… — Wade Kach
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy. — Seneca the Younger
Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good. — Laozi
The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood… — Pope Benedict XVI
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me. — Shinya Yamanaka
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your… — St. Catherine of Siena
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet,… — George MacDonald
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.… — Frederick Buechner
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you… — Laozi
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. — Christopher Lasch
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses. — Plato
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and… — Harold Brodkey
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to… — Whitfield Diffie
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious… — Solomon Asch

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