Quotessence
Home / Topics / Understood Quotes

Understood Quotes

Browse 3068 quotes about Understood.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingMenWayWorldKnowsUnderstandingWellsFirstsHumansWantNeedsShouldMadeSaidMindFeltLittlesFeelsMeanWritingArtMayFeelingsWholeLanguagePersonsYearsIdeasTryingWantedBookHas BeensChildrenReasonGivingLongDifferentKindHeartEndsFormStillsWould BeBelieveFactsMightProblemAbleLooksUseMatterMomentsRealDoeEnoughImportantSeemsStoriesOrderSpeakTwoHardHeardUsedStatesSometimesSawsSelfSoulGovernmentHandsAgeBodyDoneLawWarLastsScienceFatherSchoolSimpleWishCharacterHuman BeingsPrinciplesRealityUniverseValuesFoundNaturalPoliticalIndividualMotherArtistChristianKnownTermCertainmore

Understood Quotes

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

PeopleIfsMenLittlesMadeGovernmentLawChoicesLibertyCitizensUnderstoodLibertarianPatrioticSovereigntyGoverningFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyProperty RightsLimited GovernmentForefathersAmerican GovernmentFederalistLimiting GovernmentFederalist PapersEconomic FreedomLimited FreedomLiberty And JusticeLimiting FreedomAmerican FreedomConstitutional LawConstitutional GovernmentGovernment And PoliticsGovernment PoliticsVoting Founding FathersAmerican LawLaws And GovernmentLaw Making
Author:James Madison
Create image

“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”

IfsMenGivingEndsWould BeRealizingChildhoodDangerSorrowUnderstoodPerformancesDancerWhat IfMy ThoughtsUnbearableChairmanDriftingGeishaMemories Of A GeishaDrifting Away
Author:Arthur Golden
Create image

“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.”

MenWorldGodSpiritualNaturalPerfectExistenceWiseTeachingObjectsThis WorldUnderstoodParadiseVisibleGuaranteesCopiesNatural WorldAlchemistGuarantees ThatSpiritual Teaching
Author:Paulo Coelho
Create image

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”

MenMomentsLastsFacesWonderUnderstoodCapacityBreathsContemplationAestheticContinentsLast TimeCompelledFace To FaceEnchantedTransitoryGreat Gatsby ImportantGreat Gatsby LoveGatsby LoveGreat Gatsby NickGreat Gatsby American DreamGreat Gatsby Nick Carraway
Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
Create image

“The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.”

KnowsMenFirstsSaidFacesYoungRealizingGriefSawsSpeechUnderstoodFirst TimeRoundsDesperateCagesMagicianUnicornGrown Man
Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn
Create image

“Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!”

PeopleThinkingMenWantMadeTwoIdeasReasonUseActionPoorSacrificeDyingUnderstoodAdvantageSuicideForgottenInventionCommitMotiveAttributesVulgarMartyrIdioticSacrificing Yourself
Author:Albert Camus
Create image

“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

MenYearsMomentsWould BeEarthOpportunityLinesMemoriesRoomsRaceCitiesForeverWrittenWindSolitudeUnderstoodHundredMirrorsFinalsReachingPreciseMiragesForeseenOne Hundred Years Of Solitude
Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Create image

“6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.”

IfsMenWayLife IsOur LivesEventsFieldsLimitsUnderstoodEternityEndlessVisualsLive In The PresentLife DeathDurationTimelessnessDens
Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English
Create image

“Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.”

MenSaidEnoughUsedToo MuchUnderstoodSignificanceCommentUsualResponding
Book:The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One
Create image

“And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.”

MenHeartBookMatterPhilosophyNamesFeltBlackSawsHeardCryMinesThousandUnderstoodCloudsBellsEchoesAfter DeathChildbirthIranianVisceralSlickSemesterAsphalt
Book:What we carry: poems
Create image

“It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.”

MenWorldVoiceHeardHonestListeningUnderstoodLaysExtremesSilverDozenMe AloneHonest ManTremblingTreasure Island
Book:Annotated Treasure Island with English Grammar Exercises: by Robert Louie Stevenson (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Create image

“When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.”

MenNeedsGivingFeelsFeelingsAbleWonderfulHeardAcceptanceSafeUnderstoodEncouragementAngryAppreciationAdmirationApprovalFrustrated
Book:Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Create image

“There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.”

MenWorldMayDoeBookEarthFacesLanguageChanceMagicTreeFansLandThis WorldWindKingsCreaturesPagesBirdUnderstoodRainCastsBlowYour FaceVoidRavensWild Creatures
Author:Susanna Clarke
Create image

“I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.”

PeopleThinkingKnowsMenTryingHumansProblemWantedJesusMiddleGayUnderstoodCrossesIntelligentForgivingEastCompassionateMiddle EastGay MenHuman Problems
Author:Elton John
Create image

“Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.”

ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsTryingLooksHas BeensMomentsStoriesHandsFacesDiesWatchesWorryFoolApproachSmartBeatsUnderstoodTiredSurpriseFinalsBoringEpisodesWearinessKnow It All
Author:Álvaro Mutis
Create image

“She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.”

MenBelieveHeartKindLittlesSaidStoriesDesireGirlEvilVoicePowerfulTalkingWiseHeardChildhoodUnderstoodGardenFruitNobleIdiotRememberedFallenSpellsAdamDeliciousSnakesAdam And EveGarden Of EdenPowerful ManConsternation
Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
Create image

“This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.”

MenShouldHas BeensSaidChristianSpiritualSpiritSufferingGivenNaturalCasesSubjectsDiseaseUnderstoodCharityAccidentsDisasterTrialsThis LifePhrasesServingObeyingNatural DisasterImpositionEminence
Author:Moderata Fonte
Create image

“who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation.”

MenHas BeensEyeChanceStruggleDivineUnderstoodMercyDepthLiberationHis EyesWickedGatesAdoreCompulsionKickingKinderSoftnessResentfulHardnessProdigalsWicked ManDivine Mercy
Author:C. S. Lewis
Create image

“I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.”

PeopleMenSaidStillsMomentsMightUnderstoodTerrorAbsurdFlashMinorsSpidersPublic SpeakingDickensDementiaParalyzedGreatest Fear
Author:David Benioff
Create image

“This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!”

PeopleKnowsMenWantWritingYearsMeanHas BeensArtIdeasReadingFiveStupidUnderstoodTwentiesIntelligentFive YearsNonsenseRealismConceitStupid PeopleTwenty FivePretensionNaturalismReading And Writing
Author:Anton Chekhov
Create image

“I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.”

KnowsMenDoneFeltHoursHalfSeaMinutesLove YouTenUnderstoodSurpriseStormScornDegradeEvery SecondHalf HoursI Loved YouPuddlesTauntingHigh Seas
Book:The Princess Bride
Create image