Being Understood Quotes

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood. — Thomas D. Zweifel

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. — Brian Tracy

Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend? — J.M. Coetzee

This being understood, let us proceed with our history. — Alexandre Dumas

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious. — Trevanian

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause. — C. G. Jung

I understood from an early age what being competitive means. — Tamara Ecclestone

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission. — B. Joseph Pine II

Men ... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan

Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood. — Marian Gold

I'm not driven by being understood. — Kary Mullis

There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. — Brad Meltzer

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off ... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space. — Georges Braque

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

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined. — Remy De Gourmont

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. — Sam Peckinpah

The highest art ... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. — Hermann Hesse

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

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind. — Terence McKenna

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. — Alain De Botton

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true. — John Lancaster Spalding

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood. — Molly Haskell

Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn't truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love. — Lynsey Addario

Human is very odd living being. I have not understood anything so far. — Shankar Lamichhane

Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path. — Donna Goddard

A truth may be useful without being understood, indeed without being believed. — Frank Durham

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong — Kathryn Schulz

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

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

When i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive — Sharon Creech

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

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry

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

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated, ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev

In the collective psyche it is being understood ... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. — Tara Brach

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce

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

...Mrs. Percy understood that staying beautiful all day long is the most important aspect of being married... — Tevin Hansen

Your problem is that you have never fully understood the power of being a desired woman. — Kyra Davis

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

My greatness is not dependent on it being understood by others. My greatness lies in the acceptance of none other than myself. — Denika Carothers

I've never understood why every character being "hot" was necessary for enjoying a TV show. — Tina Fey

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish ... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger. — Drake

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. — Clarence Darrow

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

Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet. — Claire Legrand

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd — Dan Simmons

Perhaps I finally understood that being was only possible when you can accept that it doesn't entail being anything in particular. — Lars Muhl

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so. — Kevin Powers

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. — E. M. Forster

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

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing. — Jonathan Darman

Being heard and understood is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. — Richard Carlson

Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult). — John Scalzi