Top 100 Not Understood Quotes
#1. If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr
#2. What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, there will be no pain. But one has not understood a single word of 'Vir', the Vitaraag Lord Mahavir [The 24th Tirthankar]
Dada Bhagwan
#3. Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity ... The second fundamental thing is independence.
Maria Montessori
#4. I suffer, therefore I am special. I am not understood, but for precisely that reason, I am worthy of greater understanding. 13.
Alain De Botton
#5. Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.
Richard Adams
#6. Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift
#7. Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.
Susan Sontag
#8. Human is very odd living being. I have not understood anything so far.
Shankar Lamichhane
#10. What he had not understood, before battle, was that time could become a ribbon to be looped and pinned back to its center, the petals of a black rosette. I
Chris Cleave
#11. John 1:5
Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it
Anonymous
#12. Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#13. Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all ...
Djuna Barnes
#14. Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile
#15. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood All partial Evil, universal Good. - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
Thomas H. Cook
#16. Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller
#17. I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.
Rula Jebreal
#18. Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.
Neal A. Maxwell
#19. He said, You know what Oscar Wilde said - women are meant to be loved, not understood. Applies to both of them, darling. And I nodded, although it seemed to me that I was going to be a woman too and I would like it if someone thought they should understand me.
Amy Bloom
#20. The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.
David Attenborough
#21. Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.
H. Norman Wright
#22. As Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, "If you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?" (Matt. 5:46). In other words, if I love only when I feel like it, then I've really not understood love.
Paul E. Miller
#23. Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!
Swami Vivekananda
#24. Particle physicists are way ahead of cosmologists. Cosmology has produced one totally mysterious quantity: the energy of empty space, about which we understand virtually nothing. However, particle physics has not understood many more quantities for far longer!
Lawrence M. Krauss
#25. Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
Maria Montessori
#26. I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.
Woody Allen
#27. It becomes a journey of willingness to live with the mystery of God and God's ways that are not understood at the time.
Curtis W. Freeman
#28. But when we feel we are not understood, there is a sense in which we are homeless. And so we must always provide a home of understanding. There will inevitably be times when we do not understand someone's behavior or a certain response, but we can understand the person.
Mary Francis
#29. Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it, as Bishop John Shelby Spong, in The Sins of Scripture, rightly observed.
Richard Dawkins
#31. A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#32. If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#33. Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.
Cannonball Adderley
#34. In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.
Masao Abe
#35. If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
Saint Augustine
#36. There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#37. The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.
Albert Einstein
#38. He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
John Locke
#39. Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
Simone Weil
#40. Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of the world alters and a previously impossible thing is admitted, if not understood.
Audrey Niffenegger
#41. He had not understood that we were combat photographers, and our jobs were as relevant and justifiable - or as irrelevant and unjustifiable - as anyone's in Vietnam.
Nick Mills
#42. Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
Narayanananda Swami.
#43. She had not understood what he said, but she took him in with a glance that made Will feel like he had just had one of those full-body MRI scans, the kind that find more things wrong with you than you ever could have imagined.
Reece Hirsch
#44. I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore
Robert Penn Warren
#45. One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#46. But for the moment it was just a pattern of sensory impressions painted on the screen of her memory, not soaked in yet, not understood, not even granted the dignity of having really happened.
Neal Stephenson
#47. Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
Idries Shah
#48. Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.
Amit Goswami
#49. I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.
Maya Angelou
#50. One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
D.T. Suzuki
#51. As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
#52. Your positions in life are not understood until you stand firmly in them.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#53. We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#54. In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
David Lynch
#55. Writing that is not understood is pointless.
Divya Chawla
#56. Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.
G. C. Berkouwer
#57. It seemed to me he was well rid of Maureen, if she really was disturbing him to the extent that it appeared; but being judicious about other people's love affairs is easy, often merely a sign one has not understood their force or complexity.
Anthony Powell
#58. I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.
Raj Thackeray
#59. To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.
Mircea Eliade
#60. As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
Michael Faraday
#61. It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
John Baldessari
#63. When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
Carl Jung
#64. When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
L. Ron Hubbard
#65. If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
Remy De Gourmont
#66. I HAVE TOLD you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.
Osho
#67. The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain.
Sorin Cerin
#68. I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo
Robert Solow
#69. War, to be abolished, must be understood. To be understood, it must be studied." Karl Deutsch - preface of A Study of War by Quincy Wright. Added corollary by KMV: To abolish what is not understood is both arrogant and ignorant.
Karl Deutsch
#70. What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry?
Lucille Anderson
#71. The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#72. At first I had not understood Mama. But as I grew older, maybe not wiser, certainly more realistic, I realized she did the best she could. She loved me, in her own way. Not everyone is born to be a mother. It does not come naturally to some women.
Christie Watson
#73. Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.
Vilem Flusser
#74. A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
Carl Jung
#75. Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
#76. Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Niels Bohr
#77. Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Jenny Shipley
#78. If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
Kurt Vonnegut
#79. Learning is a natural human trait. When you learn something that you did not know, it should make you joyful. But if learning is making children miserable, then we have not understood how to impart learning.
Jaggi Vasudev
#80. would those in the first century who first read Matthew 12:40; 27:52-53; Acts 2:25-27; Ephesians 4:8-10; 1 Peter 3:18-22; 4:5-6; and Revelation 1:18 not understood them in light of the Descensus?
Justin Bass
#81. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood
Henry David Thoreau
#82. 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
#83. The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
Niklaus Wirth
#84. It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#85. Women liked Strike - she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had not understood the appeal when she had started working for him. He was so very different from Matthew.
Robert Galbraith
#86. Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian's ease of manner and flow of ideas,
Henry James
#87. If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.
Murray Gell-Mann
#88. My lady teases me. You do not. Understood?
Lynn Kurland
#89. The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
Giordano Bruno
#90. Perhaps she had not understood the heights to which prayer must rise before it becomes pure praise, the fortitude that is demanded before it can share in the redemption of man's soul. The man of prayer beside her had said it was action, the greatest activity there is. She began to believe him.
Elizabeth Goudge
#91. If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.
Pope Francis
#92. The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious
that is, a disease not understood
in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.
Susan Sontag
#93. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Ron Paul
#94. 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
#95. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
Barry Lyga
#96. There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
Sam Peckinpah
#97. I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm on a big planet with a lot of other people and concerns, maybe we can learn how to get along with each other.
Esai Morales
#98. The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
George Washington
#99. I understood then why people were so often defeated by this world. Perhaps the web of support that they required just did not come into alignment when it had to. Or perhaps our culture lacked the channels by which to offer this support.
Guy Mankowski
#100. My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
