Understood Quotes
2381 quotes by 1743 authors
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The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be…
— Rajneesh
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Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless…
— Adriana Trigiani
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The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.
— John C. Maxwell
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"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal…
— Christopher Columbus
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Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for…
— Diodorus Siculus
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Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed .
— Grigori Perelman
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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I…
— Marcus Mumford
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I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.
— Marshall Faulk
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I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be…
— Alexander Stepanov
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I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the…
— Bill Henson
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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
— David Antin
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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration…
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for…
— Richard P. Feynman
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In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
— Abel Bonnard
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President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day…
— Rosa DeLauro
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
— Roman Jakobson
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Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better…
— George William Russell
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It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of…
— Margaret Fuller
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