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The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.
— Thomas D. Zweifel
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
— Elbert Hubbard
The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.
— K. Martin Beckner
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
— Johann Heinrich Lambert
If you understood him, it would not be God.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.
— Carlo Rovelli
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
— Idries Shah
She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.
— Pat Conroy
The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.
— George Whitefield
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
— Barbara Ann Kipfer
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.
— Hillary Clinton
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
— Maria Montessori
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
— Philip Zaleski
What cannot be understood by the human intellect need not be feared because it ultimately comes from God
— Devdutt Pattanaik
I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out ... It's not something easily described or understood.
— Marilyn Manson
If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.
— Kurt Vonnegut
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
— Seneca The Younger
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
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
— Charles II Of England
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.
— Meredith Belbin
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
— Nora Ephron
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Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.
— Neal A. Maxwell
If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
— Maimonides
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
— Carol P. Christ
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
— D.T. Suzuki
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
— Idries Shah
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
— Niels Bohr
I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.
— Jack Nicholson
Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)
— Tucker Max
We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle ... nor its price.
— Magica Quartet
When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
— Bell Hooks
She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.
— Alice Hoffman
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My greatness is not dependent on it being understood by others. My greatness lies in the acceptance of none other than myself.
— Denika Carothers
Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?
— E. M. Forster
However, leadership is not confined to the CEO. Leadership is better understood as a process that can take place at any level of an organization.16
— Jody Hoffer Gittell
She'd been caught up in that image, that flash, man's nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.
— Jettie Necole
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
— Andy Grove
The historical trajectory of violence affects not only how life is lived but how it is understood.
— Steven Pinker
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
— Sherman Alexie
Life is to be felt not to be understood.
— Ravi Samuel
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
— Herbert Spencer
He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
— John Locke
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
— Lucretius
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
— Urs Fischer
For the first time, I understood the difference between leaving and not staying. It was the difference between a snarl and a smile.
— Cassandra Rose Clarke
My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.
— Miguel Serrano
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.
— David Thorne
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
— Albert Einstein
I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love letter.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
— Alanis Morissette
He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.
— Harry Mulisch
It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
— Cedric Benson
Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
— Richard Rohr
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.
— Robertson Davies
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
— Jimmy Connors
There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood
— Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Thinking is not yet fully understood.
— James L. Adams
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
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
— Gail Carriger
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
— Emile M. Cioran
How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself?
— Kimberly Lauren
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
— Robert A. Caro
I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.
— Jean Gabin
The one who did not understood that his time's root supports his life tree was born in vain.
— Sorin Cerin
Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.
— Richard Adams
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
— Jodie Foster
