Understood Quotes

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One has not understood until one has forgotten it. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of Godâ€™s law for others was something Christ understood as His… — R C Sproul
Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been… — Gordon Gould
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to… — Jim Edgar
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood… — Jean-Pierre Melville
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. — Ted Kotcheff
You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad,… — Nick Rhodes
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. — Robert Breault
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith
When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience… — Peter Shepherd
We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door… — Wheeler McMillen
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. — Charles Alexander Eastman
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I… — Black Elk
It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty… — J. Robbins
One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They have not really… — Gail Saltz
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left… — Agnes Denes
I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator. — Rudy Giuliani

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