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Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings. -- Haruki Murakami
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. -- Wayne Dyer
When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. -- Maria Edgeworth
It takes understanding to be outstanding -- Pastor Simeon Nwani
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein
Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside. -- Zhuangzi
Understanding requires our own observation. Solutions frequently come in the form of mental pictures. The only prescription is to get out and use our eyes to see how things work. -- David Sturt
It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Understanding is my secret weapon. -- Gabriel Justice
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. -- Anatole France
The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion. -- Pema Chodron
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. -- Ambrose Bierce
Don't just read to read. Read to understand. -- Jill Telford
How can I explain what I myself don't understand? -- Richelle Mead
When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself. -- Paul Celan
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place. -- Clarence Darrow
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it. -- Henry Miller
Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. -- Brian Tracy
Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher. -- Mortimer J. Adler
At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. -- William Poundstone
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people. -- Rudolfo Anaya
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding. -- Elias Canetti
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. -- David Antin
To understand someone, we have to be loving, kind, and compassionate. -- Debasish Mridha
To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding. -- Ken Wilber
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. -- William Feather
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said ... Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understanding and we must understand with understanding! -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion ... -- Mason Cooley
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something -- Richard Saul Wurman
You don't have to understand, you just have to survive. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Knowing is important, but understanding is everything. -- Debasish Mridha
Learning is easy; misunderstanding makes it complex! -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development -- Aristotle.
I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand. -- John Haines
To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself. -- Jacques Ranciere
When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Understanding is aggregated knowledge that has transformed into a lifestyle. -- Sunday Adelaja
Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it. -- Vj Nadar
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. -- Quintilian
At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand. -- Maurice Allais
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it. -- Milton Friedman
To understand is to invent. -- Jean Piaget
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. -- Alain De Botton
See The Meaning Not The Problem -- Sascha Bosio
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding, -- Bernard Lonergan
If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . -- Richard P. Feynman
Understanding is a delaying tactic. -- Michael Crichton
When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away! -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out -- Casey Stengel
Unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved. -- Dave Donovan
Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown. -- S. Vagus
When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another. -- D'andre Lampkin
Understanding, perhaps, but understanding is just a word. No one can understand another person unless he is that other person. -- Jose Saramago
But when we feel we are not understood, there is a sense in which we are homeless. And so we must always provide a home of understanding. There will inevitably be times when we do not understand someone's behavior or a certain response, but we can understand the person. -- Mary Francis
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To understand is to perceive patterns. -- Isaiah Berlin
if you want to be understood ...Listen. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Understanding is not absolutely final.
What's now right could be wrong later. -- Toba Beta
Another way of learning for me is to state my own uncertainties, to try to clarify my puzzlements, and thus get closer to the meaning that my experience actually seems to have. -- Carl R. Rogers
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship. -- Bruce Lee
I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY. -- George Orwell
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late. -- Mahmoud Darwish
There are many things that I don't understand. -- Billy Graham
We understand what we want to understand. -- Susan Meissner
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. -- Albert Einstein
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. -- Rick Riordan
I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter
The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood. -- Thomas D. Zweifel
You can't always understand something just because you did it. -- Richard Bachman
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. -- Haruki Murakami
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. -- Peter Hoeg
There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment. -- Mooji
By studying yesterday, you will understand today. -- Suzy Kassem
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality. -- Rudolf Steiner
You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything. -- Huston Smith
Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication. -- L. Ron Hubbard
The older I get, the less I understand. -- Blake Crouch
To wonder is to begin to understand. -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. -- Helen Prejean
By thinking of things you could understand them. -- James Joyce
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -- John Locke
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing. -- Bernard Of Clairvaux
I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to. -- Carrie Fisher
The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought! -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. -- Jerome Bruner
We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it. -- Nancy Willard
You don't need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience. -- Jim George
The simplest things are the hardest to understand. -- Kevin Wilson
I have to remember that understanding sometimes comes in degrees, like growth. Like age. -- Leah Lax
Much learning does not teach understanding. -- Heraclitus
Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally. -- Frank Oppenheimer
But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people. -- George Macdonald
Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see. -- Elizabeth Goudge
