Understood Quotes

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Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. — Marvin Minsky
I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz… — Jessica Bowman
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood. — James Branch Cabell
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which… — Leo Tolstoy
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three… — Brooke Shields
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! — Miles Davis
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large… — Charles de Lint
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood… — Mahatma Gandhi
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood. — Marie Curie
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it. — Niels Bohr
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But… — Paul Dirac
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. — John Green
Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered… — Patti Davis
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as… — Milan Kundera
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten,… — Leo Tolstoy

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