Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.
Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.
Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.
You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
You see weird things driving. . . I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway. . . I don't understand that. I mean, if they need logs over there. . . and they need 'em over there, you'd think a phone call would save 'em a whole lot of trouble.
All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.
I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.
When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.
That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God. " But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
Seek to understand rather than be understood.
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.