“ 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 Dirac- Copy
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“ I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. ”
- Virginia Satir- Copy
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“ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ 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 Dirac. ”
- Paul Dirac- Copy
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“ Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. ”
- Greta Garbo- Copy
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“ I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
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“ What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
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“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. ”
- Mark Ardis- Copy
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“ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ”
- Paul Eldridge- Copy
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“ What is not fully understood is not possessed. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. ”
- C. C. Colton- Copy
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“ The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
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“ Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world. ”
- Emily Taft Douglas- Copy
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“ Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. ”
- Plato- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
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“ A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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