Understood Quotes

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.