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

23.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Hazlitt, William

24.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

25.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

26.

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

Sinclair, Upton

27.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Saying, Zen

28.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.

Mcgranahan, Norvin

29.

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

Burke, James E.

30.

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

Davis, Michael

31.

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Upanishads, Veda

32.

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

Klassen, V. I.

33.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

Gourmont, Remy De

36.

The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Fulbright, J. William

38.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Lewin, Kurt

39.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

44.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Mill, John Stuart

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Finley, Guy

47.

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

Simpson, Homer

48.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

49.

And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

Ornstein, Robert E.

50.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell