Have Understood Quotes

#1. When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it;

Steven Brust

#2. Several paragraphs of dense text began to scroll across the screen, an unreadable blur of legalese outlining all the details of enlistment. It would have taken hours to read it all, and then I still probably wouldn't have understood a word of it.

Ernest Cline

#3. I would have understood if they had killed him.

L.J.Smith

#4. I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

Isaac Newton

#5. For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking ... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

Edward T. Hall

#6. I understood that now. I wished I could have understood it then. I wished I could have said something in that last moment, before he let go.
He'd told me it was okay. His last words to me.
Why couldn't they have been my last words to him?

Kelley Armstrong

#7. Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you have understood much, but that you have been able to retain it. Otherwise it is of little profit either to read or to understand.

Hugh Of Saint-Victor

#8. Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

CLAMP

#9. Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

Laozi

#10. Never assume that others have understood exactly what you mean.

Steven Redhead

#11. All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

John C. Maxwell

#12. If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Alice Hoffman

#13. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

W.B.Yeats

#14. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what that means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes have glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. Sophie and the six crewmen might have understood

Kevin Hearne

#15. Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Niels Bohr

#17. Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale.

Honore De Balzac

#18. Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand
in the same sense that I have understood
that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Hannah Arendt

#19. ... could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take.

L.M. Montgomery

#20. Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?

Laurent Fignon

#21. I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth.

Philippa Gregory

#22. We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

James MacDonald

#23. When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable ...

Rajneesh

#24. I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.

Steven Brust

#25. You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Paulo Coelho

#26. We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Henry De Montherlant

#27. When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

Emile M. Cioran

#28. When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.

Kabir

#30. There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel.

Richard Brautigan

#31. Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#32. I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

Laurie Lee

#33. Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.

Marvin Ammori

#34. Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#35. She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.

Kristin Hannah

#36. He wouldn't have understood if I'd told him why I spend my time with criminals.
He didn't know that I belonged with them. More than I belonged with him.

Samantha Shannon

#37. I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing.

Neil Gaiman

#38. I have understood over these last years that in order to believe in God, it is essential to have trust in humanity. There is no God without humanity.

I continue not to believe, neither in God, nor in humanity.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#39. Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.

Carlo Rovelli

#40. If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

Umberto Eco

#41. The man, still kneeling, must have understood the cause of my tears, for he said, 'It is true, Christine! ... I am not an Angel, nor a genius, nor a ghost ... I am Erik!

Gaston Leroux

#42. You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.

Gene Wolfe

#43. The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Dennis Prager

#44. It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

#45. Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

Mike Huckabee

#46. Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.

Loris Malaguzzi

#47. God forgives us, as - when - we forgive them who injure us - and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew - but we never know - we never reach the end of understanding - the understanding of God - the mystery of his love ...

Lucy Beckett

#48. Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Theodore Bikel

#49. Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.

Robert Fulghum

#50. We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is ...

Pope Francis

#51. If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#52. As the Quran suggests over and over again, and as the Constitution of Medina explicitly affirms, Muhammad may have understood the concept of the Umm al-Kitab to mean not only that the Jews, Christians, and Muslims shared a single divine scripture but also that they constituted a single divine Ummah.

Reza Aslan

#53. What did Jesus tell his disciples? "Heaven is right here in the midst of you."6 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a prediction that to this day few people have understood.

Eckhart Tolle

#54. This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Hesiod

#55. Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

Ai Weiwei

#56. Do you know what every instructor in the world wants from you? He or she really, really wants you to do two things: Demonstrate that you have understood the course material and write intelligently about your subject.

Scribendi

#57. We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#58. Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#59. St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'.

G.K. Chesterton

#60. And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#61. If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took.

Felix O. Hartmann

#62. Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to Clara brought me no more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursing those who hurt us the most.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#63. Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

William Monahan

#64. We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Alexander Schmemann

#65. She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.

Marcel Proust

#66. I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Susan B. Anthony

#67. If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something in common, tremendous attention to detail in their personal lives and associations.

Frederick Lenz

#68. Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.

Ernest Hemingway,

#69. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

Klaus Kinski

#70. Let me absorb this thing. Let me try to understand it without private barriers. When I have understood what you are saying, only then will I subject it to my own scrutiny and my own criticism This is the finest of all critical approaches and the rarest.

John Steinbeck

#71. The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me.

Sadegh Hedayat

#72. I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

Novalis

#73. Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.

Tammara Webber

#74. Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether.

Joseph Campbell

#75. Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn't rise and fall with circumstances, isn't to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery.

Paul David Tripp

#76. You would think that Rosemary would understand that. She should have understood what such a choice said - that Karin was not to be made happy, amends were not possible, forgiveness was out of the question.

Alice Munro

#77. I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#78. The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

Mahatma Gandhi

#79. I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

Black Elk

#80. More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Kofi Annan

#81. I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

Jojo Moyes

#82. Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

Saint Augustine

#83. Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

Richard Wright

#84. We begin to live authentically only where philosophy ends, at its wreck, when we have understood its terrible nullity, when we have understood that it was futile to resort to it, that it is no help.

Emil Cioran

#85. Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Peter Abelard

#86. Hence words are learnt; hence eloquence is to be attained, most necessary to persuade people to your way of thinking, and to unfold your opinions." So, in truth, we should never have understood these words,

Augustine Of Hippo

#87. I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Brigitte Bardot

#88. Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

John Ashcroft

#89. She wouldn't have understood. Or worse, she would've pretended to understand, but then got annoyed when her support didn't magically cure me.

Holly Bourne

#90. You must find your own way. Unless you find it yourself, it will not be your own way and will take you nowhere. Earnestly live your truth as you have found it, act on the little you have understood. It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness

Roy Melvyn

#91. The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Saul Bellow

#92. They wouldn't have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.

Thomm Quackenbush

#93. For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.

Shakira

#94. To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.

Deyth Banger

#95. For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Lou Reed

#96. 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 the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#97. The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood?

Stephen Richards

#98. Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

Frederick Lenz

#99. something glorious a minute later. How could anyone not have an orgasm? While she didn't ask for his cock, her mouth opened as she gulped in air. Perhaps it was when she dropped her head back that he understood she was ever so close, because he shut off the vibrator and pulled it out.

Vella Day

#100. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time.

Dean Koontz