#understood

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#considerations #does #essentially #exist #fact

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#church #churches #down #government #grab

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#brother #climbed #fit #friends #group

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. ↗

— Patrick White

#breathed #cannot #component #dividing #explain

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#career #davis #every #his #master

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#follows #form #function #joined #misunderstood

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bound #call #disguises #evil #good