Quotes with understood

  • 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.
  • The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
  • The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
  • Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
  • The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
  • Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
  • Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
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  • Epictetus Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Molière We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • John Milton A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • John Gray A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Jean François Lyotard A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
    Jean François Lyotard
     
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  • Napoleon Hill All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Boris Pasternak As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Benny Goodman As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Hartley Coleridge But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
    A universal license to be good.
    Liberty
    Hartley Coleridge
    English poet, biographer and writer (eldest son of S. T. Coleridge) (1796 - 1849)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Henry Miller Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Barber Conable 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 Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Annie Dillard Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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