Understood Quotes

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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper… — Charles Dudley Warner
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we… — Hannah Arendt
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. — William James
What is not fully understood is not possessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to… — Stephen King
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be… — Francis of Assisi
All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night. — Leon Brown
I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how… — Paula Deen
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of… — Jacques Barzun
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's… — Bill McKibben
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the… — Hippocrates
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a… — Charles Caleb Colton
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have… — John Ashcroft
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy. — Richard Bach
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it. — Boyd Rice
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. — Rollo May
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent,… — Primo Levi

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