Understood Quotes

2381 quotes by 1743 authors

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A… — Edith Schaeffer
We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call… — Steven Van Zandt
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler… — Asa Gray
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution… — Butch Otter
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked… — Alfred North Whitehead
I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love-every single one of us. How can we not… — Anita Moorjani
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. — Clarence Darrow
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up… — Tayari Jones
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where… — Tom Hodgkinson
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand
If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood… — Pope Francis
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired… — Neil Postman
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying,… — Charles Handy
As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself.… — Orhan Pamuk
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… — Kenny Smith
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or… — Henri Nouwen
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that. — Alistair Begg

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