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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
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
Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
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
The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
That was one of the saddest things about peopletheir 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
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
Genius is never understood in its own time.
— Bill Watterson
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
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 wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
— Jodie Foster
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
