Understood Quotes
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
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... 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.
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Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
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I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.
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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
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The obvious is always least understood.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.
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In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.
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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes.
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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
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Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes". But if your questions are less superficial, for example whether some well-known scientist was a good scientist. Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities. Ask "If that turned out to be true, would you still say they were good scientists?" The answer would reveal something about how they themselves understood what it is to be a scientist.
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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
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Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.
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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.