Understood Quotes

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But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of… — William Bayliss
Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train… — Sarah Josepha Hale
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps… — Salomon Bochner
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood,… — William Buckland
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most… — Eliza Lynn Linton
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of… — Hilla von Rebay
I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love. — Heidi Baker
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible… — Henry Home, Lord Kames
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform… — Alan Bullock
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's… — Fernando Pessoa
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial… — Corinne Heline
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over… — Chip Pashayan
They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what… — Ed King
My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many… — Gerd R. Puin

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