Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change

Everybody at Axa has understood that digital is there, that digital changes our business, and also that digital can create an opportunity

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

What I have ever understood about a good letter is that it is the one to which the person can always hear with interest and engagement while the other person is just reading it out for the former one.

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.

You forget how I talked when you first met me. I have learned a new language since then. Before that time I talked as that girl talks. Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl’s language.

I felt like ‘Owl Pharaoh,’ not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

I also understood that God’s love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul

I don’t expect to be understood at all.

I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.

I wanted to tell him something I don’t have to tell you what I said. I said it in English. I wanted to make sure he understood.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living!

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

If you can’t explain something to a first year student, then you haven’t really understood

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it’s considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it’s a passion. Poor old Antony Worrall Thompson, poor old Delia Smith, I don’t think the penny’s dropped yet!

Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act.

Friends and colleagues all of a sudden looked at us, treated us, slightly differently than had months or years before when we were working together. I never quite understood that.

Dialectic is here understood in the grasping of opposites in their unity or of the positive in the negative.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood

I finally figured out what e-mail is for. It’s for communicating with people you’d rather not talk to.

Empty orators and silent scholars
died without having understood Being and non-Being.
Ignorants, my brothers, let us continue tasting
the juice of the grape attentively and let
the authorities satisfy themselves
with dry raisins.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey’ stuff, she was right, there was nothing there. And it was understood by the people who run the political system, and so it’s no great secret that the US electoral system is mainly a public relations extravaganza…it’s sort of a marketing affair.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.