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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John Bunyan All Understood Quotes
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak 
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When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
DeForest Soaries
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
Branford Marsalis
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I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
Hedy Lamarr
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer
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Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
Jeffrey Jones
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R. D. Laing
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