| "A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. 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 from others." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "The obvious is always least understood" »Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich |
| "What is not fully understood is not possessed." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." »Marie Curie |
| "I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant." »Alan Greenspan |
| "Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind." »Woody Allen |
| "I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." »Robert McCloskey |
| "My music is best understood by children and animals." »Igor Stravinsky |
| "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." »Niels Henrik David Bohr |
| "Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard |
| "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." »Doris Lessing |
| "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood." »Alexander Meigs Haig |
| "We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." »Mark Ardis |
| "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." »Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
| "Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom." »William James |
| "Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood." »William Penn |
| "Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood." »Laurence Sterne |
| "Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority." »Barber B. Conable, Jr |
| "Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge." »Alexis Carrel |
| "It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." »Charles Baudelaire |
| "There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified." »Carl Van Vechten |
| "I think there probably should be a rule that if you're talking about how many loaves of bread a bullet will go through, it's understood that you mean lengthwise loaves. Otherwise, it makes no sense." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." »George Steiner |
| "O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." »Saint Francis of Assisi |
| "O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen." »Saint Augustine |
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