Understood Quotes

2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed… — Steve Martin
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible… — Leo Tolstoy
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. — Evelyn Underhill
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. — George Orwell
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese. — Patrick O'Brian
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit… — Thomas Bernhard
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and… — Arthur Golden
Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man.… — Pablo Casals
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed… — Octave Mirbeau
What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think… — G.A. Henty
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at… — C.S. Lewis
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever… — Tom Robbins
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with… — Paulette Jiles
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. — Mignon McLaughlin
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a… — Paulo Coelho
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve… — Paulo Coelho
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what… — Robin McKinley
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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