Quotes on Understood

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself. That's how I managed to pull myself together, over the years, checking myself from the outside.

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?