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Quotes About Understandable

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.
~ Keir Starmer
In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was.
~ Maria Konnikova
Well, the responsibility of the surgeon general is to make sure that the public has access to science and access to it in a way that is understandable and that is applicable to their everyday lives.
~ Vivek Murthy
Mulheres... sejam de que mundo forem, não deixam de ser previsíveis.
~ Nora Roberts
If we realize that the assumptions by which the person has lived his or her life are collapsing, that the assembled strategies of the provisional personality are decompensating, that a world-view is falling apart, than the thrashing about is understandable. In fact, one might even conclude that there is no such thing as a crazy act if one understands the emotional context. Emotions are not chosen they choose us and have a logic of their own.
~ James Hollis
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
~ Jim Webb
It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.
~ Julius Streicher
There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
~ Samuel Barber
The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.
~ Walter Isaacson
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now—and the ship had gone.
~ William Golding
simple" is finding the core of the idea.
~ Chip Heath
Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.
~ Thelma Ritter
if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.
~ Paulo Coelho
In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
~ Piet Mondrian
Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.
~ Domenico Gnoli
Attempts to deescalate the situation did not work, and I guess it's easy for me to say as she was the hurt party, but where she took this rage crossed the line from understandable to unforgivable and then to unconscionable. Not only was it malignant to me but horrendous for poor Dylan, who had just turned seven and was too young to have any perspective.
~ Woody Allen
It was therefore understandable, Dahl said, "that the policy views dominant on the Court are never for long out of line with the policy views dominant among the lawmaking majorities of the United States.
~ Unknown
That's understandable, but it also shows we are a bit intolerant of alien intelligences.
~ Tyler Cowen
Under certain circumstances parental pride is understandable but it has no place in the theater, where it tends to encourage a child to believe in a talent that, more often than not, simply fails to exist.
~ David Sedaris
All of this avoidance was understandable, well-meaning, and in fact filled with love. But the end result turned out to be greater levels of anxiety.
~ Unknown
Destiny had become perfectly understandable while everything unenigmatic, such as standing for the photograph in the third row back, with my one arm on the shoulder of Marshall Goldstein ("Children 39, 37. Grandchildren 8, 6") and my other on the shoulder of Stanley Wernikoff ("Children 39, 38. Grandchildren 5, 2, 8 mo."), had become inexplicable.
~ Philip Roth
Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to picket his funeral after all the things that he had done to so many other people. That vindictiveness is obviously completely understandable. It would make perfect sense.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
Nora had read about multiverses and knew a bit about Gestalt psychology. About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
~ Matt Haig
Nora had read about multiverses and knew a bit about Genstat psychology. About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
~ Matt Haig