Understood Quotes

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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books… — Saint Augustine
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is… — Carlos Castaneda
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine… — Allen Tate
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. — Johann Heinrich Lambert
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
Every moment is travel - if understood. — Benjamin Disraeli
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be… — Sengcan
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes;… — E. M. Forster
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is… — B.F. Skinner
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there. — Italo Calvino
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. — Maria Montessori
I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. — Saul Bellow
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes… — Bernard Berenson

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