Understood Quotes
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.
Friedrich August von Hayek -
The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
S. C. Gwynne
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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Lao Tzu -
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
Hannah Arendt -
You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran -
You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
Mark Steyn -
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Idries Shah -
Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
B. Joseph Pine II -
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
Virginia Satir -
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
Plato -
If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
All these years later, the world knows who I am, ... When it was first released, nobody understood who I was.
Linda Blair -
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
Albert Einstein -
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
Sigmund Freud -
I think certainly he's concerned that he's not going to get the endorsement, but we understood what the rules were from the beginning and we ought to stick to the rules.
Lynn Swann -
In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
Helmut Lang -
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift -
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack! -
Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
Reza Aslan -
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Nolan Bushnell -
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'Brien