Understood Quotes

2381 quotes by 1743 authors

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to… — Ayn Rand
Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after… — Byron Katie
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. — Ron Paul
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore… — Bianca Jagger
The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether. — Wallace D. Wattles
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of… — Ellsworth Huntington
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either… — Michael Faraday
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. — Fritjof Capra
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.… — Luis Federico Leloir
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and… — Werner Heisenberg
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. — John Shelby Spong
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation.… — Rajneesh
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want… — Saint Augustine
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. — Confucius

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