Top 100 To Be Understood Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak
Rajneesh
#3. Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for reasons associated to self.
Truth Devour
#4. I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#5. A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Johann Georg Hamann
#6. Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.
Rufino Tamayo
#7. We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.
Trevanian
#8. The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.
Dane Rudhyar
#9. The new anthropology required each culture to be understood on its own terms, as a product of its own evolution rather than as merely an earlier stage in the ascent toward Western civilization.
Guy Deutscher
#10. Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#11. But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people.
George MacDonald
#12. Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
Matthew Perry
#13. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
#14. Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood.
Henry G. Sheppard
#15. In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
James Clerk Maxwell
#16. It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.
Nadia Hashimi
#17. That's the truth," Quinton said. "I think that's what all of us are looking for, inside of BDSM or not. To be understood, to find our like-minded tribe, to be accepted and belong, no matter what.
Laura Kaye
#18. If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
Johnny Ball
#19. Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated
Paulo Coelho
#20. You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
Charlie Peacock
#21. Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
Alfred North Whitehead
#22. All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.
Chip Pashayan
#23. Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
David Crystal
#24. The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Sigmund Freud
#25. The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
Alice Hoffman
#26. Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.
John Shelby Spong
#27. The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
Francis Lockier
#28. Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Jeff Bezos
#29. Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja's gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable.
Anthony Marra
#30. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act
Paulo Coelho
#31. Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
Josh Shipp
#32. But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it's their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won't come true.
Jostein Gaarder
#33. Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames
#34. There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.
Howard Dean
#35. Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).
John Scalzi
#36. If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Charles II Of England
#37. How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
Horatius Bonar
#38. I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
Marcus Brigstocke
#39. A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Marcus Sedgwick
#40. That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
Laurie Anderson
#41. What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Pablo Picasso
#42. ...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly.
Hank Green
#43. The unheard to hear - the unseen to see - the more to be understood: transparency. A purposeful guiding to a place of progression where ends come together and a bridge exists for the seeking to cross over onto a road of new and lasting hope.
Calvin W. Allison
#44. And like nectar inside the bud,
my blood drinks from your blood, beloved,
and starves to join the salvation in your eyes;
to be understood again and again, by your nakedness and certainty, a humbleness that trickles into the crevices of my seasoned mind.
V.S. Atbay
#45. Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
Paul Ricoeur
#46. There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.
David Rose
#47. 'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.
Cara Santana
#49. If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.
Carlos Castaneda
#50. The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.
Kenneth Coutts-Smith
#51. Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.
Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.
Mizuki Nomura
#52. Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#53. I smile. Not just at bad clowns, but at "library science." I like that name. It makes a library sound as vast and mysterious as the universe or the ocean, requiring specific study to be understood.
Deb Caletti
#54. It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
Simone Weil
#55. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.
Selena Haskins
#56. It is not true to say that God is unable to be understood, but it is true to say that he cannot be understood fully or exhaustively.
Wayne A. Grudem
#58. Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.
Baruch Spinoza
#59. If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Evelyn Underhill
#60. It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
John Baldessari
#61. The world of global drug production, shipping distribution, sales, and consumption is too complex, however, to be understood in any single us-and-them story.
John Gibler
#62. But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris Murdoch
#63. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#64. I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
Kenneth Branagh
#65. 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 in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul A.M. Dirac
#66. It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.
C. G. Jung
#67. The way people pray- casting my plea into the ether. A plea to be understood. Looking for signs.
M. Pierce
#68. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin
#69. I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'
Bertrand Russell
#70. Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.
Sam Smith
#71. Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Mary Gaitskill
#72. 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
#73. Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
Rollo May
#75. It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.
Joseph Addison
#76. Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
#78. He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.
Ayn Rand
#79. Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.
Werner Heisenberg
#80. To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
Eugene Delacroix
#81. Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya
#82. Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood.
Lauren Myracle
#83. Sometimes I think I want to run away and disappear but what I really want is to be understood.
Tina J. Richardson
#85. I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
Lil' Wayne
#86. Let's all keep quiet, there are times when words serve no purpose, if only I, too, could weep, say everything with tears, not have to speak in order to be understood.
Jose Saramago
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster
#90. Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
#91. Adams lay peacefully, his mind clear, by all signs. Then late in the afternoon, according to several who were present in the room, he stirred and whispered clearly enough to be understood, Thomas Jefferson survives.
David McCullough
#92. No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
Stephen Fry
#93. William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-
Garth Risk Hallberg
#95. I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
Fernando Pessoa
#96. We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
Moliere
#97. To Sky, Clown had become something to be understood; something to be dissected and parameterised. Clown, he now recognised, was something like the bubble-drawing the dolphin had made in the water: a projection carved from light rather than sound.
Alastair Reynolds
#98. Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.
Heloise
#99. Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.
Haruki Murakami
#100. I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end.
Neel Mukherjee
