Understanding Quotes

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.

You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.