We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

18.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Finley, Guy

21.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

23.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

24.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

25.

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

Sinclair, Upton

26.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

27.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

29.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Breton, Andre

31.

No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.

Klassen, V. I.

32.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Coty, Rene

34.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

36.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Augustine, St.

37.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

41.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

42.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Davis, Michael

43.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

44.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.

James, Henry

45.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Simpson, Homer

48.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

49.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Kafka, Franz