Understood Quotes - Page 8

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

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

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.