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.
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.
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.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Man know much more than he understands.
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
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