Understood Quotes

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Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and… — Paul Gauguin
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or… — Paul Gauguin
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.… — Thomas Sowell
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just… — Thomas Sowell
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at… — Michael Crichton
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. — Claude Monet
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it… — Remy de Gourmont
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering… — John A. Macdonald
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others? — Ramana Maharshi
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual. — Ludwig von Mises
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. — Eugene Delacroix
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? — Robert Schumann
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to… — Anthony de Mello
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this… — J I Packer
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. — David Steindl-Rast
It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though… — Robert R. McCammon

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