Understood Quotes

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Mathematical objects are determined by – and understood by – the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood – if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.