Quotes About Understood

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

The scary thing about the protective properties of dietary intake regarding abnormal human radiation exposures is that NASA has understood this for decades!

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Any governess, after the few hours I have had in this house, would have a full and clear picture of the task awaiting her, but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

She thought she understood the tourists. You travel somewhere not for museums and sunsets but for ruins, bombed-out terrain, for the moss-grown memory of war and torture.

Designers know too much about their product to be objective judges: the features they have come to love and prefer may not be understood or preferred by the future customers.

There is nothing God does not wish to be understood and investigated by reason.'' He

I would say that risk management is the most important thing to be well understood.

The tall trees, compassionate, understood everything: grief - they stood stock-still, branches drooped in despair; fear - they exposed their many roots, tugged their gold hair; anger - they shook in the storm, pointed their bony fingers. - The World of Trees (inspired by the Forest of Burnley)

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Charles called himself a Darwinist, and yet he had not really understood Darwin. But then, nor had Darwin himself.

And must not, it may be asked, all this labour spent upon Keats' memory and remains, all this load of editing and re-editing and commentary and biography and scholiast-work laid upon a poet who declared that all poems ought to be understood without any comment, — must it not by this time have fairly smothered, or is it not at least in danger of smothering, Keats himself and his poetry?

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

Yet in Germany no less than the United States, the political meaning of genocide has never been widely understood. Both populations have, for the most part, denounced genocide as a racist act, but neither has recognized that it was also a productive one, whose outcome is the nation-states in which they live.

One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.

The design of God was, that his word should be always read and used in that language which was commonly understood by them unto whom he granted the privilege thereof; nor could any of the ends of his wisdom and goodness in that merciful grant be otherwise attained.

Squeak. Tubbs was half-asleep on the couch, his face covered with an unfolded Star Tribune. The overhead light was still on, and when he'd collapsed on the couch, he'd been too tired to get up and turn it off. The squeak wasn't so much consciously felt, as understood: he had a visitor. But nobody knocked.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.