Best Understood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.”

Ifs Want Country Sides Failing Land Understood Rain Native Showers Native Land

Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.”

Years Has Beens Found Situation Known Written Generations Intellectual Understood Consequence Twenties Election Democratic Protest Supremacy Arthur

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.”

Men Doe Understood Property Possession Manliness

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.”

Matter Felt Interest Simple Deals Circumstances Understood Trials Duration Public Interest

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.”

Wells Written Effects Ought Understood Agreement Contracts

Book:The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

Source: The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

“An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.”

Men Mind Has Beens Form Half Understood Originals Fantastic Unusual Dozen Novelty Admitting

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.”

Knows I Can Feelings Understanding Community My Own Groups Share Communication Conversation Understood Depth Defined Intimacy Mutual Lacking

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.”

Years Wonderful Streets Fronts Understood Excited Copies Republic Plato Brooklyn Plato S Plato's Republic

Author:Robert Nozick

“A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.”

Ifs Known Understood Definitions Defined Evident

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.”

Wells Desire Understanding Break Communication Understood

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.”

Causes Term Principles Understood Fundamentals Accidents History Of Science

Author:Alan Lightman

“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.”

Men Years Firsts Facts Past Understanding Taken Saws Four Listening Understood Female Twenties Males Glasses Assumption Powerlessness Magnifying Magnifying Glass False Assumptions

Author:Warren Farrell

“In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.”

Mind Said Stills Matter Form Process Difficult Term Clear Understood Prejudice Separation Trials Experiments Substance Routine Formulas Daring Phases Alchemist Noir Dissolution

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum , one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one".”

Heart Mean Persons Soul Christian Father One Thing Son Expression Understood Harmony Unity Bores Disposition Conjunctions

Author:Joseph Priestley

“Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.”

World Happenings Understood Soviet

Author:Lennart Meri

“A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.”

Science Power Understood Accepted Conclusion Mathematician Tenacious

Author:Georg Cantor

“I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.”

Ifs World Would Be Justice Understood Assumption Prisoner Fewer

Author:Anthony Daniels

“My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.”

Christ Discipline Understood Completion Thesis

Book:Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Source: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.”

Done Moments Given Can Do Principles Changed Color Praying Letting Go Understood Surrender Release That Moment Purple Changed My Life

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.”

Thinking Should Country Understood Threat Clinton Terrorism Our Country Administration Our Time Als

Author:Colin Powell

“How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.”

Hard Moments Seems Sorrow Promise Understood Shining Scripture Verses Standing Out Splendor Sunbeams

Author:Horatius Bonar

“A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.”

Knows Facts Problem Found Simple Opinion Understood Prejudice

Author:Charles Kettering

“I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.”

Belief Technology Reader Understood Artificial Intelligence Artificial Belief Systems

Author:Jaron Lanier

“In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.”

Character Given Race Plans Birth Involved Understood Ill Forests Ambitious Savages Enmity Defective

Book:France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.”

Sin Understood Devil Absolutes Drinking Intellect Coffee Prophet Glorious Ulcers Hernias

Book:My Name Is Red

Source: My Name Is Red

“Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.”

Important Able Principles Subjects Understood Adam Overlooked

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”