Understood Quotes - Page 11

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

When you understand someone... truly understand someone... you can't help but love them. Therefore... anyone in your life... ANYONE... who you feel less than love for... you have misunderstood.

There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to undermine America when it mattered, had been sanitized; and the role of Mr. Gorbachev, who had failed spectacularly in his declared objective of saving communism and the Soviet Union, had been absurdly misunderstood.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

I'm not driven by being understood.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.