#understood

Women are made to be loved, not understood. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#made #understood #women #women are

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#attention #better #calling #explained #human

We had so much to say to each other, like we’d been quiet our whole lives until we met. It was as if I had underestimated how hungry I was for a companion, how much I needed to be understood, to be pursued, to be seen and to be reflected in someone’s eyes. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#first-love #love #pursued #romance #understood

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#before #communicate #genuine #understood

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. ↗

— Karl Popper

#intended #neither #nor #only #possible

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#every #frightened #genius #had #head

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#austria #both #countries #cultural #france

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#clear #disease #expect #give #had

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#american #american president #any #better #convinced

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#could #course #i #liked #me