Quotes about Understood
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
- Dennis Prager
I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
- Ed Koch
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
- CS Lewis
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
- Norman Geisler
There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.
- Paul Allen
The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.
- George Whitefield
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
- JRR Tolkien
Clinton himself understood that globalization involved not only new economic challenges but also new security challenges.
- Barack Obama
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
- Stephen Covey
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
- Origen
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
It was a moment that could not be understood in the context of normal human experience. A great spiritual love had settled on them all.
- Ted Dekker