Understood Quotes

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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. — Solomon Asch
OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ? — Eugene Wigner
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our… — Jean-Pierre Serre
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there… — Jerry Pournelle
There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one… — Roger Schank
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it… — James Clerk Maxwell
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string… — Lee Smolin
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious… — Rajneesh
If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it. — Rajneesh
This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity… — Rajneesh
When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of… — Ezra Taft Benson
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one… — Eckhart Tolle
The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness… — John Selden
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna
True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level… — Dave Snowden
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or… — Michael Polanyi
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -… — Edgar Allan Poe
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests… — Thomas Merton
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management. — Samuel Wilson

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