Understood Quotes

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My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In… — Gerhard Richter
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any… — Stephen Batchelor
Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the… — Arthur Eddington
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of… — Leon Croizat
And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores… — Robert Boyle
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he… — Betsy Lerner
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture,… — Charles Portis
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example… — C. V. Wedgwood
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. — Chaim Weizmann
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was… — Robert Fitzgerald
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the… — Chuck D
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both… — Julian Baggini
I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me… — Patrick Duffy
I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm… — Thandie Newton
Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the… — Andy Andrews
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would… — Augusten Burroughs
Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan. — Jan Brewer
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. — Judith Butler

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