Understood Quotes
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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
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There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.
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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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She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
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Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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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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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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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.
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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
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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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My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
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Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.
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Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.
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There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.
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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes.
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But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.
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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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It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
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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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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
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Until one day I understood: you were asking me to commit myself to the point of no return.
