Understood Quotes

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I think more than anything, people just want to be understood. — Charlize Theron
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good… — William J. Clinton
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of… — Robert A. Heinlein
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To… — Walter Lippmann
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. — Hermann Hesse
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood.… — Galileo Galilei
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has… — Pablo Picasso
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.… — Pablo Picasso
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead. — Pablo Picasso
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was… — Lou Reed
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and… — William Cowper
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet,… — Marc Chagall
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones… — Mary Oliver
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who… — George Steiner
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good. — Arthur Guiterman
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered… — Georges Braque

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