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Women are made to be loved, not understood. -- Oscar Wilde
My music is best understood by children and animals. -- Igor Stravinsky
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -- Marie Curie
Life can only be understood backwards. -- Mackenzie Astin
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. -- R. D. Laing
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. -- Stephen Covey
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. -- T. S. Eliot
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well. -- Moliere
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. -- Carl Jung
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. -- Kofi Annan
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -- Helen Keller
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. -- Christopher Lasch
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. -- Igor Stravinsky
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. -- Niels Bohr
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed -- Frank Capra
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. -- E. T. Bell
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. -- Zig Ziglar
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. -- Chuck Hagel
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. -- Moses Mendelssohn
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. -- Roland Barthes
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. -- Nicholas Sparks
Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood? -- Pope Francis
I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. -- Randy Pausch
Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. -- Deepak Chopra
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. -- Geoff Mulgan
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. -- Lil Wayne
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. -- Niels Bohr
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. -- Alison Gopnik
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. -- Edward T. Hall
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. -- John Adams
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. -- Rick Perlstein
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. -- Barry Goldwater
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. -- Radhanath Swami
I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone. -- George Strait
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. -- Alex Steffen
I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received. -- Mario Balotelli
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' -- Andy Warhol
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. -- Gerard Way
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. -- Tom Hanks
The obvious is always least understood. -- Klemens von Metternich
Learning is experience understood in tranquility. -- Charles Handy
What's lightly hid is deepest understood, -- Richard Wilbur
Have read little and understood less. -- James Joyce
I'm not driven by being understood. -- Kary Mullis
It's a luxury to be understood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously. -- Aristotle
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Seek to understand rather than be understood. -- Stephen Covey
Creation is great, and cannot be understood. -- Thomas Carlyle
One day" came. Because finally I understood. -- Melina Marchetta
I don't think I ever understood Hollywood. -- Gloria Grahame
Seek first to understand before being understood. -- J. Richard Clarke
I understood early that beauty was power. -- Kevyn Aucoin
Every moment is travel - if understood. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Being that can be understood is language. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
To be understood is to prostitute oneself -- Fernando Pessoa
I cannot be understood in three minutes. -- Sidney Poitier
It is a luxury to be understood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never understood the Iowa caucus. -- Larry King
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. -- John Milton
She eventually forgave him, because she understood him. -- Whitney Otto
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves. -- George Plimpton
Art is an international language, understood by all. -- Igor Babailov
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words. -- Idries Shah
My parents never understood me; they were Japanese. -- Chic Murray
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. -- Elbert Hubbard
I don't expect to be understood at all. -- Kanye West
The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood. -- Byron Katie
I understood. I have understood. I do understand. -- Isaac Newton
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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others -- Oscar Wilde
Genius is never understood in its own time. -- Bill Watterson
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
No one ever understood disaster until it came. -- Josephine Herbst
What is not fully understood is not possessed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality. -- Nikki Sixx
Music was known and understood before words were spoken. -- Charles Darwin
Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted. -- Joseph Conrad
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all. -- Kathleen Raine
At least I had that, one guy understood me. -- Yoko Ono
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. -- Leo Strauss
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood. -- Mary Ritter Beard
One place understood helps us understand all places better -- Eudora Welty
I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before -- Italo Calvino
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood. -- Stephen Covey
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. -- Woody Allen
Honor is a term much used but little understood. -- Regina Maria Roche
One has not understood until one has forgotten it. -- D.T. Suzuki
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! -- Miles Davis
For those who are understood no need to explain -- Ryan Lochte
I never understood the low art/high art distinction. -- Matt Tong
Information is only useful when it can be understood -- Muriel Cooper
To understand and be understood is to be free. -- Daniel Johnston
The whole end of speech is to be understood. -- Confucius
If you understood him, it would not be God. -- Saint Augustine
I never understood actors who could just wait around. -- Scott Eastwood
I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile. -- Earl Butz
Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself. -- Glenn Beck
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. -- T. S. Eliot
Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood. -- Mary Rakow
All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood. -- Jennifer Flackett
He understood. In lovesickness we had found a common language. -- Aspen Matis
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind. -- Woody Allen
My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. -- Miguel Serrano
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. -- Mark Twain
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! -- Paramahansa Yogananda

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