Quotes with (understood

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  • Cecil Day Lewis We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Burgess Owens We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What is not fully understood is not possessed.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bernard Marcus When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Billy Collins When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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.
    Nietzsches Zarathustra (1988)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Antonin Artaud When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • E. M. Cioran When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Earl Nightingale Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Jonathan Swift Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Lionel Trilling Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Bob Schieffer With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Byron Katie You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
    Radicals in Robes (2009 edition), Basic Books
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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