Understood Quotes
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Pablo Picasso -
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Thomas Hobbes
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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
Laurie Anderson -
An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
Washington Allston -
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
Kate Morton -
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Auguste Renoir -
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.
Galileo Galilei
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I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
Sarah Dessen -
... 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 -
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.
Róisín Murphy -
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.
Barry S. Strauss -
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
Soren Kierkegaard -
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
Marianne Williamson
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The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.
John Stuart Mill -
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
Richard Selzer -
Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
Carol Rifka Brunt -
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.
Bastiaan van Fraassen -
It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil -
The obvious is always least understood.
Klemens von Metternich
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Until one day I understood: you were asking me to commit myself to the point of no return.
Brother Roger -
It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.
Wallace Olins, CBE -
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Sigmund Freud