Famous quotes containing the word understood:
“And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“When we speak the word “life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“Good writers have two things in common: they would rather be understood than admired, and they do not write for hairsplitting and hypercritical readers.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)