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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. — Elbert Hubbard

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

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers. — Gore Vidal

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

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores. — Kelly Link

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

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

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. — Christopher Lasch

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

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. — Pat Conroy

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

My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage. — Tina Fey

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it. — David F. D'Alessandro

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. — Pablo Picasso

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

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself. — Glenn Beck

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

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood. — David Dreman

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 have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood. — Lesley Howarth

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

For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. — Jane Leavy

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

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. — Sarah Dessen

I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine. — Craig Davidson

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. — T. S. Eliot

All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night. — Leon Brown

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. — Mahatma Gandhi

A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved. — E. M. Forster

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. — Isaac Asimov

But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. — Betsy Lerner

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

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

He understood, as he would write in "Walking," that "the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. — Henry David Thoreau

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body. — Dani Shapiro

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. — Marcus Brigstocke

understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones — Jean Sasson

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. — Jean Baudrillard

The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all. — A. Lee Martinez

I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill. — Richard Wagamese

You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God — Sunday Adelaja

Men have never understood the words of the wise. — Paulo Coelho

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing. — Tony Scott

I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life — Priya Kumar

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood — Tim Flannery

I have never understood the Iowa caucus. — Larry King

Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine. — Tom Robbins

The erotic power was a natural aphrodisiac, and he suddenly understood what a rush edge play could be. — Claire Thompson

Fortunately, she understood the difference between biological attraction and lasting affection. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good. — Arthur Guiterman

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

E understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall. — Henry Kimsey-House

...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly. — Hank Green

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

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

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

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

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality. — Betty Eadie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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