Understood Quotes
He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
William M. Kucmierowski
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
Vera Mary Brittain
To have even known such a man as he was is an inestimable boon. To have been with him for so long as a child, to have known so intimately the man who above all others has understood childhood, is indeed a memory on which to look back with thanksgiving and with tears.
Isa Bowman
Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it
Galileo Galilei
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
Thomas Boswell
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
Henry Miller
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
Leo Rosten
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism
Barry Goldwater
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority
Barber B. Conable
