Understood famous quotes

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
-- Abbi Glines

#Found #Wanted #Understood

In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
-- Abel Bonnard

#Love #Needs #Understood

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
-- Adora Svitak

#People #World #Understood

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
-- Alain Robert

#Done #Court #Understood

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Kids #Wells #Understood

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
-- Alexander Pope

#Evil #Pleasure #Understood

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Love You #Easy #Understood

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
-- Arsenio Hall

#Would Be #Understood

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
-- Arthur Helps

#Understood

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#Devil #Way #Understood

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

#Confused #Want #Understood

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
-- Austin Carlile

#World #Music Is #Understood

I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.
-- Barack Obama

#Marijuana #Lines #Understood

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
-- Barbara Ann Kipfer

#Understood #Transgression

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
-- Ben Affleck

#Firsts #Enough #Understood

Every moment is travel - if understood.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Travel #Moments #Understood

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Sweet #Understood

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Fate #Facts #Understood

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Nature #Understood

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Wanted #Understood

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.
-- Betty Eadie

#Understood

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
-- Bjork

#Used #Understood

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
-- Brenna Yovanoff

#Wicked #Might #Understood

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Kindness #Important #Understood

We fear only what we haven’t understood.
-- Byron Katie

#Understood

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #Understood

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.
-- Cara Santana

#Mom #Advice #Understood

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
-- Carl Jung

#Understood

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
-- Carl Jung

#Dream #Understood #Remains

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
-- Carrie Brownstein

#Play #People #Understood

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis

#Writing #Order #Understood

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
-- Chaim Weizmann

#Theory #Understood

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
-- Charles de Foucauld

#Believe #Understood

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
-- Charles Handy

#Learning #Tranquility #Understood

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
-- Charles II of England

#Useless #Unnecessary #Understood

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Jesus #Lord #Understood

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
-- Charlie Peacock

#Understood

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...
-- China Mieville

#Regret #Cowardice #Understood

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
-- Chris Cleave

#Cry #Pity #Understood

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Home #House #Understood

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Information #Debate #Understood

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
-- Claude Monet

#Nature #Eye #Understood

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
-- Cynthia Kenyon

#Principles #Understood

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.
-- Cynthia Lennon

#Reality #Needed #Understood

One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
-- D.T. Suzuki

#Understanding #Forgotten #Understood

I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.
-- Dan Bern

#America #Might #Understood

To understand and be understood is to be free.
-- Daniel Johnston

#Understood

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
-- David Crystal

#Needs #Enjoy #Understood

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
-- David Deutsch

#Program #Understood

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.
-- David Dreman

#Psychology #Important #Understood

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
-- David Sedaris

#Understanding #Realizing #Understood

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
-- Debbie Reynolds

#Missing #Kind #Understood

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Attention #Understood

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
-- Edward Dahlberg

#Liberty #Regulation #Understood

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
-- Elia Kazan

#Communism #Understood

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
-- Errol Flynn

#World #Fragments #Understood

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
-- Esther Dyson

#Economy #Market Economy #Understood

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Writing #Understood

OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?
-- Eugene Wigner

#Computer #Understood

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

#Taken #Rejected #Understood

To be understood is to prostitute oneself
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Understood #Oneself

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed
-- Frank Capra

#Racket #Understood

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
-- Fred Hampton

#War #Bloodshed #Understood

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Understood

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.
-- Gayle Forman

#Forgiven #Understood

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Narcissism #Kind #Understood

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
-- George Plimpton

#People #Understood #Bookshelves

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,
-- Georges Simenon

#Years #Criminals #Understood

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#Want #Understood #Women Want

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.
-- Gloria Grahame

#Thinking #Hollywood #Understood

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.
-- Gloria Whelan

#Littles #Understood

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
-- Greg Mortenson

#Men #Virtue #Understood

Being that can be understood is language.
-- Hans-Georg Gadamer

#Language #Understood

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
-- Hartley Coleridge

#Liberty #Be Good #Understood

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Understanding #Firsts #Understood

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...
-- Henri Poincare

#Mean #Understood

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
-- Henry de Montherlant

#Confusion #Understood

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
-- Hu Shih

#Elements #Contact #Understood

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.
-- Hugh Casson

#Architecture #Understood

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Enemy #Trouble #Understood

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
-- Iris Murdoch

#Understood #Humans #Oneself

Seek first to understand before being understood.
-- J. Richard Clarke

#Understanding #Firsts #Understood

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.
-- Jacob K. Javits

#Adults #Understood

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Lasts #Helping #Understood

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
-- James Branch Cabell

#Life #Looks #Understood

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
-- James MacGregor Burns

#Earth #Understood

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'
-- James Randi

#Events #Prophecy #Understood

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Genius #Obvious #Understood

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.
-- Jean Gabin

#Doors #Understood

All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.
-- Jennifer Flackett

#Song #Ridiculous #Understood

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.
-- Jim Palmer

#Imagine #Understood

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
-- Jodie Foster

#Essentials #Understood

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
-- Johann Heinrich Lambert

#Mind #Enlightened #Understood

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Art #Would Be #Understood

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
-- John Baldessari

#Desire #Feels #Understood

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
-- John Berryman

#Song #Comfort #Understood

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Understood #Persons

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

#Sex #Slander #Understood

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
-- Joseph Conrad

#Accepted #Being Accepted #Understood

No one ever understood disaster until it came.
-- Josephine Herbst

#Disaster #Understood