(287 quotes found)
“Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.”
Christopher Lasch
“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
Walt Disney
“I write to understand as much as to be understood”
Elie Wiesel
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
C. Wright Mills
“If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.”
Niels Bohr
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.”
William Blake
“If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!”
Miles Davis
“Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.”
Ho Chi Minh
“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them”
George Savile
“I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.”
W. R. Inge
