Understood Quotes

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Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong — Kathryn Schulz
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding,… — Leslie Jamison
I used to say, â€˜Things cost too much.â€™ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, â€˜The problem isnâ€™t that things cost too… — Jim Rohn
To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise. — Susanna Tamaro
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving… — George Grosz
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my… — Richard Bach
Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted. — Thomas S. Monson
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought,… — Swami Vivekananda
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and… — Henri Poincare
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it… — John A. Hiigli
I don`t think this has been fully understood by the United States... If you look at India, China and Russia, they all have strong education… — Craig R. Barrett
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood… — Jacques Ellul
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But… — Albert Camus
Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way. — Fred Alan Wolf
Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the… — Ivan Illich
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort… — Zhuangzi
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled… — Barry S. Strauss
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If… — Robert Adams
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. — Patrick Kavanagh

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