218 Quotations with Understood.
- 1. Soren Kierkegaard: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
![Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.. Soren Kierkegaard.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. Mark Ardis: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be und ...
![A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be und .... Mark Ardis.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. Charles Baudelaire: It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people ...
![It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people .... Charles Baudelaire.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. Paul Dirac: In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyo ...
![In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyo .... Paul Dirac.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Doris Lessing: That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood al ...
![That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood al .... Doris Lessing.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. William Penn: Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end ...
![Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end .... William Penn.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. H. L. Mencken: Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misu ...
![Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misu .... H. L. Mencken.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. Elbert Hubbard: The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, v ...
![The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, v .... Elbert Hubbard.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. Paul Eldridge: Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion ent ...
![Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion ent .... Paul Eldridge.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What is not fully understood is not possessed.
![What is not fully understood is not possessed.. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. C. C. Colton: We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improv ...
![We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improv .... C. C. Colton.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. Josiah Gilbert Holland: Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficul ...
![Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficul .... Josiah Gilbert Holland.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. Robert Cecil Day Lewis: First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already ...
![First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already .... Robert Cecil Day Lewis.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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![GREAT, adj.
.... Ambrose Bierce.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
![MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According .... Ambrose Bierce.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
![TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat .... Ambrose Bierce.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an i ...
![VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an i .... Ambrose Bierce.](/img/view.gif)
- 18. George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st ...
![Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st .... George Eliot.](/img/view.gif)
- 19. Abraham Lincoln: The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was di ...
![The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was di .... Abraham Lincoln.](/img/view.gif)
- 20. Alexander Haig: The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would b ...
![The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would b .... Alexander Haig.](/img/view.gif)
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