#understood

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#black sheep #family #i #me #mother

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#destination #destinies #differences #each #man

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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#butterfly #did #dust #his #know

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#both #history #individual #life #neither

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#better understood #coming #cultures #evolution #mutant

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#before #embarrassing #gave #god #had

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#first #first time #going #i #love

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#because #enough #know #never #understood

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#money #none #own #power #state