Understood Quotes

One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

Action is more generally understood than words.