Famous quotes containing the word understood:
“Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didnt know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldnt a understood it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“...I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (17921873)
“Posthumous menmyself, for exampleare not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understoodhence our authority.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)