Top 100 Quotes About Understood
#1. The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?
John Milton
#2. The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
Jay Wright Forrester
#3. This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#4. The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
Heinrich Heine
#5. We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.
Dannii Minogue
#6. What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.
Jamie Tworkowski
#7. The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Maria Edgeworth
#8. It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.
Kenny Smith
#9. Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
Samuel Johnson
#10. Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud
#11. Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
Cormac McCarthy
#12. People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.
Salomon Grimberg
#13. Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made ...
Philip Roth
#15. For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God
Albert Ayler
#16. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
Mikhail Lermontov
#17. I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
Lil' Wayne
#18. 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
#19. Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.
Amy Jo Martin
#20. If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#21. Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.
Alison Weir
#22. From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
Boz Scaggs
#23. As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. ("Cafe Endless: Spring Rain")
Nancy Holder
#24. Some people came into the world and never once looked up to see the lives around them
they were so focused on what they wanted, what they needed. No one else mattered to them. They disconnected from sympathy and pity and guilt. Some people came into the world as monsters. I understood that now.
Alexandra Bracken
#25. I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#26. I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.
Laura Ruby
#27. Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
Jose Saramago
#28. But time changed. That was something only drunks and junkies understood. When you couldn't sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.
Stephen King
#29. The thing was, some men needed killing. The Church didn't admit that, save it was war. The Mohawk understood it fine. So did Uncle Jamie.
Diana Gabaldon
#30. We might even say that the one thing which separates a saint from ordinary men is his readiness to be one with ordinary men. In this sense the word ordinary must be understood in its native and noble meaning; which is connected with the word order.
G.K. Chesterton
#31. Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.
Phil Hine
#32. And I suddenly understood that getting drunk was just one more way to leave this place, this time.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#33. Ah, wine. Wine was my friend. Wine understood me. Wine knew that it was entirely possible to be one hundred percent happy for your sisters and also ten percent jealous, because Wine does not care about mathematics.
Melanie Harlow
#34. We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Val McDermid
#35. I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.
David Levithan
#36. The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.
Lina Wertmuller
#37. You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.
A.S. Byatt
#38. It's a sin and an evil to think you had understood. But unless we acted as if we understood something, we wouldn't be able to live.
Wataru Watari
#39. Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)
Tucker Max
#40. Love, as Mercer had heretofore understood it, involved huge gravitational fields of duty and disapproval bearing down on the parties involved, turning even small-talk into a ragged struggle for breath.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#41. I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
Andy Rooney
#42. What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
Henri Poincare
#43. She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
Jodi Picoult
#44. If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Moliere
#45. Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
Al Lewis
#46. A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger
#47. Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
Niels Bohr
#48. The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
Alfred North Whitehead
#49. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?
Theresa Sjoquist
#50. In that moment, I understood implicitly what my mom had meant. That was the moment I felt my heart smile for the first time.
Nicola Haken
#51. The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.
Al Gore
#52. In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.
Anthony Trollope
#53. Thank god for coffee. Coffee understood. Coffee was my friend.
Kylie Scott
#54. The life you live in as an author is nothing but lies. The men you create, the men you read, it's all bullshit. I never understood your need for it when you have me.
E.K. Blair
#55. They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way and I understood not only how entirely generous they were but also that generosity might be the greatest pleasure there is.
William Maxwell
#56. I fell in love with her partly because I understood what she was doing with her work. I fell because she understood what she was doing with it. I also fell in love because she was wearing a sexy black dress and silk stockings, the kind that hook with garters.
Stephen King
#57. I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together. And the way she laughed at my wisecracks and thanked me for my opinions made me think maybe I was as smart and funny as she said i was.
Anita Diamant
#58. I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Mary Cheney
#60. He understood the flaw in that logic: if comforting them comforted him, maybe comforting him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other.
James S.A. Corey
#61. Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield
a tactician's greatest sin
like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains.
Scott Kenemore
#62. Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
Stephen Covey
#63. Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center - at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.
Jane Jacobs
#64. What is there to confess that's worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant,
Fernando Pessoa
#65. You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.
Nora Roberts
#66. I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?
Holly Black
#67. For a guy who struggled with finding his place in the world, standing next to Maggie, I understood one thing on a very fundamental level. Wherever she went, whatever she did, that is where I belonged.
A Meredith Walters
#68. One thing everyone understood, however, was that when they sprayed him with snow during a stoppage in play and he responded by throwing his blocker up into one of their guys' nose, he meant business. To be fair, he was not the first foreigner in China to lash out when frustrated by this culture.
Tom Carter
#69. Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Stephen Covey
#70. The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
Giordano Bruno
#71. The word 'sin' is derived from the Indo-European root 'es-,' meaning 'to be.' When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, 'to be' in the fullest sense is 'to sin'.
Mary Daly
#72. One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster
#73. Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
#74. I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.
Mordecai Richler
#75. Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It's more like the smelling salts.
Timothy Keller
#76. He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.
Kate Alcott
#77. I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.
Moss Hart
#79. We should understand the Constitution as the founders meant that it should be understood. We can do this by reading their words about it, such as those contained in the Federalist Papers. Such understanding is essential if we are to preserve what God has given us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#80. There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.
George Boole
#81. I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#82. One place understood helps us understand all places better
Eudora Welty
#83. While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams
#84. And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
John Perkins
#85. The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.
Jill Purce
#86. But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
C.S. Lewis
#87. I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
Peter Falk
#88. David was a man after God's heart because he was a man who understood God's heart and sought to protect the heart of God. You cannot protect God's heart until you intimately understand His heart.
Chaim Bentorah
#89. My lady teases me. You do not. Understood?
Lynn Kurland
#90. And she understood. She would have done the same. She understood, too, why she'd been wrong to offer Ballyhara as a substitute for land he'd farmed all his life. It made all his work meaningless, and the work of his sons, his brothers, his father, his father's father.
Alexandra Ripley
#91. Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
Alfred De Vigny
#92. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
John Wesley
#94. Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.
Rudolf Rocker
#95. Isaiah 55:6-13 God's ways and thoughts are infinitely higher than those of the most brilliant human. Yet His words in Scripture communicate well enough to bring about supernatural change in those who hear its truth. The purpose of communication is not to speak, but to be heard and understood.
Sid Buzzell
#96. Emma finally understood. Life was magic, a gift from the heavens, and each person harbored an immense potential within themselves.
It was all very simple, really.
"We're all blessed," she whispered.
Kristy McCaffrey
#97. 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
#98. He understood that she'd always believed herself cursed, his angel. That she lived on stolen time. That she deserved nothing..
Joey W. Hill
#99. In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin
#100. 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
