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“I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.”

“Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.”

Firsts Character Desire Passion Strong Wish Ambition Understood Constant Rise Above Irresistible Strong Desire Lafayette

Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”

Humans Body Economy Understood Economics Doctors Complexes Accurate Predictions Economist Human Body Reluctant Complex Systems

Author:Alice Rivlin

“I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.”

Should Believe Children Home Law I Believe Parent Sun Highest Understood Shining Obedience Visible Fewer Implicit Instantaneous

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.”

Understanding Understood Excited Dislike

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.”

“The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it”

Values Understood Wine Aesthetic Tasting

Author:Tim Crane

“Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.”

Way Want Mind Kind Reason Night Values Easy Sound Heard Understood Woods Graves Ghost Grieving Every Night Halloween Moors Rest Easy

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.”

Humans School Found Causes Understanding My Own Rights Taught Understood Slavery Slave Human Rights Civil Rights Investigation Anti Slavery

Author:Angelina Grimke

“The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.”

Has Beens Two Important Lasts Law Political Culture Perfect Enemy Virtue Century Expectations Understood Constitution Terror Absence Traditional Public Life Framers Political Culture

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.”

Men Women Imagination Understood Men And Women

Author:H. G. Wells

“In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?”

Reality Roles Trouble Conflict Understood Opposites Motherhood Cop

Author:Mary Blakely

“Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”

History Battle Conflict Understood Regard Series This Day Humankind Facets

Author:Anton Chekhov

“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

People Ifs Wells Would Be Chance Results Amount Lucky Picks Understood Incredibles Investing Active Wide Managers Outcomes Distribution Skeptical Unlucky Portfolios

Author:Eugene Fama

“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.”

Believe Different I Believe Mistake Situation Industry Activity Skills Limits Projects Understood Investing Backgrounds Spheres My Mistakes Background Knowledge

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”

Needs Rights Understood Slave Womens Rights

Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.”

Men Mind Heart Pleasure Results Understood Regard Instruments Mere Folly Toys Wickedness Fashionable Frivolity Vacuity Heartlessness

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.”

Ifs Men He Man Cost Understood Dear Labour Boast Authorship

Book:An essay on translated verse

Source: An essay on translated verse

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.”

Way Love Life Should Problem Fall Grows Our Lives Flower Understood Love Life Weed No Problem

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.”

Religion Understood

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.”

Wells Trump Understood Creator Appeals Hypothesis Selection Caprice Inscrutable

Book:Why Evolution Is True

Source: Why Evolution Is True

“You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?”

Doe Accepting Hell Information Communication Offers Understood Strive Painful Refusal

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.”

Heard Baby Understood Infancy Eloquent Orators

Book:Romance and reality, by L.E.L.

Source: Romance and reality, by L.E.L.

“If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.”

Ifs Men Creativity Creating Understood Being Different

Author:Esther Hicks

“I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.”

Reality Life Is Imagination Keys Understood

Author:Betty Eadie

“Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.”

People Ifs Internet Understood Assuming Very Good Engines Google Search Engine

Author:Rory Sutherland

“The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.”

Said Self Force Results Accepting Meditation Buddhism Understood Discovery Concerned Green Self Discovery Dylan Meditating Fuse Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.”

Problem Hands Language Design Understood Direct Relation Designer Visuals Obscure Criteria Good Design Stylish Trendy

Author:Ivan Chermayeff

“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.”

“If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Understanding Ignorance Understood

Author:Ramon Llull

“Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.”

Giving Sound Greater Listening Understood Sacredness

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.”

Important Form Understanding Like You Understood Important Things Jazz Entertainment Enjoyed Digging Blueprints

Author:Cannonball Adderley

“Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.”

Humans Christian Human Beings Civilization Understood Buddhist More Money

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.”

Giving Heart Able Loses Grace Giving Up Understood Broke Reverends

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.”

Giving Mind Together Universe Asks Grows Answers Knowing Taught Understood Power Of The Mind Knowledge And Wisdom

Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.”

“[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.”

Knows Men Mean Use Young Lines Mistake Proud Understood Young Man Marijuana Inhale

Author:Barack Obama

“The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.”

Men Process Movement Eternal Solutions Reflection Understood Contradiction

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.”

Mind Wells Heart May Littles Night Sleep Animal Morning Too Much Holy Bed Understood Scripture Holy Scriptures Remnants

Author:Martin Luther

“All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.”

Men Mind Believe Doe Art Made Care Heard Judging Conversation Understood Capacity Excellence Ridiculous Spots Pauses Remarks Penetrate Plunge Incomparable Art Of Conversation

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”

Law Religion Speak Imagination Creative Taken Understood Active Myth Tolerance Silly Organized Nonsense Openness Sane Humankind Organized Religion Creative Imagination

Author:Rami M. Shapiro

“Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood.”

Ifs Home Spirit Certain Energy Language Rooms Design Understood Harmony Warmth Interior Design

Author:Charlotte Moss

“The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.”

Heart Government Lying Individual Liberty Citizens Weapons Ordinary Understood Fellows Extraordinary Englishmen Controversial Second Amendment Secured Ordinary Citizens Colonists

Book:To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

Source: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

“I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Book Use Black White Accepting Understood Likes Phrases Ruling

Book:Symbolic Logic: Elementary

Source: Symbolic Logic: Elementary

“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.”

Reason Use Kings Understood Court Corruption Ministry Good Kings

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.”

Understood Fulfilled

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.”

People Reason Understood Mad

Author:Ingrid Weir

“Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!”

Life Youth Understood Getting Old

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.”

World Life Is Sin Destiny Our Lives Thousand Understood Originals Guilt Chains Indifference Strings Controlled Pulling Can Not Hereafter Redeemed Negligence

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.”

Earth Heaven Perspective Understood Tragedy

Author:David Platt

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