Understood Quotes

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

Terence McKenna
- Fiction
- Form
- Divorced
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

Charles de Foucauld
- God
- Faith
- Understanding

People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.

Cathy O'Neil
- People
- Government
- Evil
I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Ben Lerner
Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality.

Judith Butler
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

Morton Feldman
- Break
- Understood
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere
- Speak
- Understood
- Manage
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.

Michel Legrand