Understood Quotes

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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound… — Isadora Duncan
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to… — Ian Mckellen
We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood… — Swami Satchidananda
Learning is experience understood in tranquility. — Charles Handy
Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're… — Nirmala Srivastava
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity… — John Green
The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was… — John Shelby Spong
He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into… — Erma Bombeck
First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared… — Agnivesh
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or… — Alan Watts
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a… — Samuel L. Jackson
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. — Elia Kazan
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood. — Andy Grove
We always speak well when we manage to be understood. — Moliere
We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty… — George W. Bush
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be… — Alison Jolly
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan

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