Top Understood Quotes
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
Michael Behe
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
John Hench
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Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
Jim Wallis 
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Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
Lennart Meri
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None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
Jake Lloyd
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Edward Sapir
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury
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Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
John Hench
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What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
Klaus Kinski
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Virginia WoolfCharles BaudelaireGeorg C. LichtenbergDonald RumsfeldJames MadisonHelen KellerJonathan SwiftSigmund FreudElia KazanGene TierneyT. S. EliotHedy LamarrJames ThurberWalt DisneySoren Kierkegaard
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