A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

It’s human desire to be understood. And we always feel we’re not understood.

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio – it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really...

I’ve never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

‘Business,’ properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed ‘the party of business.’

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us… They still believe in that vision.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn’t make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear… then his message was easily...

Do you know, Michael, he was – he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That’s important. That’s why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it’s obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all...

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.

The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn’t coming back.

What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we...

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

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.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.