Famous quotes containing the word understood:
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“Posthumous men—myself, for example—are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood—hence our authority.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)