#understood

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me. ↗

— Banksy

#banksy #hours #life #night #people

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. ↗

— Adam Levin

#fear #misunderstood #betrayal

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

— Carrie Brownstein

#i #music #never #people #play

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#clearly #husband #many #marriages #same

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid. ↗

— Joan Chen

#born #certain #drama #explain #how

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#enough #hard #i #never #parties

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#most #probably #sad #things

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#art #bring #dealing #different #different way

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling