The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different fr….

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid..

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person..

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves..

What's lightly hid is deepest understood..

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they ….

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed..

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities..

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood..

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself..

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact..

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't..

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me..

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan..

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

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman..

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept..

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right..

I don't expect to be understood at all..

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth..

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.