Understood Quotes

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I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out… — Stephen L. Richards
When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means… — Daniel H. Ludlow
I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire… — Rajneesh
The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets… — Dahlia Lithwick
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but… — Susan B. Anthony
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" — Michel de Montaigne
Seek first to understand before being understood. — J. Richard Clarke
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. — Mahatma Gandhi
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role… — Carolyn Heilbrun
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos… — William Cecil Dampier
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly… — Omar N. Bradley
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes 77 cents on a dollar and women of color make 67 cents... We feel so passionately… — Hillary Clinton

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