Home / Topics / Understood Quotes

Understood Quotes

Browse 3068 quotes about Understood.

Understood Quotes

“The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.”

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!”

Ideas Order Simple Principles Understood Oneself Phenomenon Repetition

Book:The path to the new music

Source: The path to the new music

“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

“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

“With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.”

Thinking States Whole Government Simple Cases Understood Relation Former Department Latter Federal Government Foreigners Subordinates

Book:The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

Source: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

“Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.”

Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.”

Needs Helping Justice Simple Clear Unique Understood Dignity Clarity Revolutionary Thinker Elites

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.”

Want Mind Heart Asks Simple Pages Understood Complexes Surface Complexity Heart And Mind Unspoken

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.”

Littles Imagination Simple Common Principles Computer Understood Common Sense

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.”

Able Speak Simple Risk Essentials Understood Clarity Insult

Book:The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires

Source: The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires

“What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.”

Simple Understood Complicated

Author:Paul Valery

“Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.”

Simple Jokes Understood Naked

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.”

World Book Simple Wise This World Fool Understood Hearted Plain And Simple

Author:Martin Luther

“There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.”

Ifs Heart Stills Spirit Belief Nations Simple My Heart Projects Understood Optimism Cups Tea Leap Idealism Soar Frustrating Contradictory Cups Of Tea Oratory

Book:Stephen Fry in America

Source: Stephen Fry in America

“By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.”

Ifs Way Kind Mean Simple Clear Reader Understood Areas Clarity Grounded Comforting Disorientation

Author:Billy Collins

“I don't know any other job that the off-the-field issues - especially something personal like that - affects your job. But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn't turn out the way I wanted.”

Knows Way Children Wanted Jobs Turns Simple Situation Issues Fields Lessons Understood My Children

Author:Adrian Peterson

“Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United States became this special place and then try to replicate it around the world, because that's the solution to the human condition. The solution to poverty, the solution to misery, the solution to backwards living is the United States of America. Why not learn how that happened, learn why and how we happened. What is it that made it special?”

“If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.”

Ifs Enough Simple Brain Smart Understood Being Smart

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.”

Ifs Book Light Reading Hours Simple Morning Air Pure Mountain Understood Reading Books

Author:Max Muller

“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.”

Knows Persons Simple Identity Circumstances Comfort Understood Embrace Intimacy Desperate Abandon Allowing Folds Fiber Replicate

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.”

Firsts Able Order Simple Understood Simple Things Esther

Author:Paulo Coelho

“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”

Knows Simple Known Ignorance Understood Complexes

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“He understood that she needed some time to get used to "them." He didn't. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn't need another week, another month, another year, to get things in perspective. He loved her. It was that plain. That simple.”

Needs Years Used Simple Week Perspective Months Needed Happenings Understood Another Year

Book:To the Brink: The Bodyguards

Source: To the Brink: The Bodyguards

“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”