#understood

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#desire #educated #educating #entirely #ever

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#understood #write #you

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

#democracy #fathers #founding #founding fathers #functioning

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#heard #read #speak #understood #write

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#conversation #misunderstood #wisdom #communication

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#apart #balance #big #big night #breakfast

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstood #philosophical

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#correct #greatly #i #i am #idiots

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#i #music #never #people #play

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#financial #happen #just #liberalization #now