Understood Quotes

“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back again")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.”
― Daniel Willey

“One day" came.
Because finally I understood.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.”
― Hermes Trismegistus

“Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being
understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood;simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood.”
― Michael batnick

“People try to understand me and what I do. I don’t want to be understood. Don’t put me in a box until I’m dead.”
― Richie Norton

“You probably have your own scenes you've lived through---scenes where you think that if only people knew what was really going on, they might cut you some slack and help you.”
― Dave Furman, Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting

“I’m tired of people who dont know what they want, who have to be coaxed. I want somebody who’ll see a light in my eye and come to me.”
― Ann Wadsworth, Light, Coming Back: A Novel

“Avoid watering yourself down to be understood. The people, who enter into your world, need to rise up and meet you where you are.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Please tell me about your suffering. You are not a burden, you are love aching to be understood.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Maybe you've thought that as a Christian you have to smile and pretend to be okay when someone asks you how you are doing. Perhaps you think that if you're grieving, then you're dishonoring God. This isn't so.”
― Dave Furman, Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting

“Women are easier loved than understood. How do you understand someone who came into existence when you were sleeping?”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, Read to grow.”
― pranita deshpande

“I never quite understood grief triggers until my dad passed away.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“She kept giving him signals and at last when he understood them, she had more important things to do.”
― Nitya Prakash

“My encounters with the Hawaiian spirits atop Mauna Kea indicate that there is another universe that is not understood by modern science.”
― Steven Magee

“The quality of the input will eventually be understood in the value of the results.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance

“Intolerance to gluten has been understood for thousands of years and one can only wonder why the average time from first symptoms to diagnosis takes a decade in modern corporate medicine.”
― Steven Magee

“It's only to be expected,' said Mr. Cardan comfortingly. 'Anyone who has anything to say can't fail to be misunderstood.The public only understands the things with which it is perfectly familiar.Something new makes it lose its orientation.And then think of the misunderstandings between even intelligent people, people who know one another personally.'..............Then you must know how easy it is for your correspondent to take the expression of one of your passing moods -forgotten long before the arrival of the letter at its destination - as your permanent spiritual condition.”
― Aldous Huxley

“It’s a little bit magical how much people appreciate being heard and understood.”
― Tania Israel , Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work

“When I was really sick, no one in the medical profession understood Magee’s Disease.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“After President Obama opened the Desoto Solar Farm, I told OSHA to shut it down the until the dangerous problems it contained were fully understood. I regarded it as a risk to the many workers there.”
― Steven Magee

“At that time you have to realize that you haven't understood the world yet when you looked at all your fingers equally.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The purpose of communication is to make yourself understood,
but there are those who prefer to disagree.”
― Augusto Branco

“Altitude induced suicide in high altitude areas is very well understood.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The journey of addiction is one that can only be understood by those who have gone through it personally and by God Himself. At times, we progress, and at times we backslide. At time, we feel strong, able, and ready to fight, and at times we feel so beat up we can hardly stand to face the new day. At times, we feel like fakes, imposters, and losers, totally unworthy of God’s love, but these are the moments we need the gospel most.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Being understood and accepted like that…it made me so happy, Mom.”
― Adam A. Fox, A Sinful Sacrifice

“I lost the desire to be understood.
I just want my soul to be comfortable in this flesh.

That's it.”
― Samira Vivette

“The craving to be understood may in the end be merest egoism.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms