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

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate. — Mikhail Lermontov

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. — Guy Gavriel Kay

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing. — Esther Hicks

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before. — Marianne Williamson

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak

And I finally understood something--why had it taken me so long? Sometimes people lie because they love you. — Heidi Tankersley

But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me. — Kathryn Stockett

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24) — Jean Vanier

Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much. — Carol Rifka Brunt

Will and I had been to each other, the way I felt that no person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again — Jojo Moyes

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered. — Danielle Trussoni

Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens. — Francois Hollande

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. — Carl Jung

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

... could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take. — L.M. Montgomery

No one ever understood disaster until it came. — Josephine Herbst

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over. — Barbara Ann Kipfer

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports. — David Winner

That was one of the saddest things about people
their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. — Alexandra Adornetto

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana

My music is best understood by children and animals. — Igor Stravinsky

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren

I understood there's a difference between compromise and cooperation, and that to rely on another takes a distinctive kind of strength. — Alexandra Oliva

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

His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him. — Glen David Gold

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love, — Victor Hugo

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed. — Prince

A God you understood would be less than yourself. — Flannery O'Connor

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

The squirrelicorns contained their horror like professionals and confirmed that they understood completely. — Lisa McMann

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood. — Christian Morgenstern

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. — Noam Chomsky

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face. — Julius Lester

Genius is never understood in its own time. — Bill Watterson

You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good. — Ogden Nash

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. — Jacob K. Javits

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. — Carol P. Christ

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them. — African Spir

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
thing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier

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

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. — Andre Rieu

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds

We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle ... nor its price. — Magica Quartet

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood. — Arnold Bennett

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives. — Jake Lloyd

How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself? — Kimberly Lauren

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. — Shannon Celebi

think if more people understood the reality, they'd be less inclined to classify the lifestyle as abusive, or demeaning. Those — Jason Luke

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth. — Norman Cousins

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed — Algernon Blackwood

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind. — Woody Allen

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held. — Georg Cantor

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

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant. — Nicholas Sparks

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness — Aya Kito

She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton

...having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q — Luther Blissett

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. — Anonymous

Home should be the shelter where the teen is understood and loved, where he is encouraged and shown the paths of life. — Tedd Tripp

They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She'd been caught up in that image, that flash, man's nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after. — Jettie Necole

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. — Matthew Perry

she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. — David Antin

Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living! — Hal Lindsey

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. — Jacqueline Bisset

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us ... They still believe in that vision. — Shawn Fanning

Knowing you, I understood myself. — Kamand Kojouri

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians! — Eli Of Kittim

Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. — Bell Hooks

The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood. — Tom Holland

articles of agreement which were to bind these friends in a common partnership, whereby it was understood — George Randolph Chester

The historical trajectory of violence affects not only how life is lived but how it is understood. — Steven Pinker

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

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. — William Ralph Inge

You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years. — Brian Morton

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past. — Alice McDermott

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna

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

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. — Cynthia Kenyon

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. — Idries Shah

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov

We fear only what we haven't understood. — Byron Katie

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease. — Dan Groat

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability. — Jerrod Carmichael

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. — Audrey Niffenegger

I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. — Paul Shaffer

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. — H.W. Brands