#understanding

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."

"She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable."

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."

"The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world."

"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."

"For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us."

"It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge."

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."

"I have a beard of fog that I wear on misty mornings. It’s not cigarette smoke, but I’d understand if you wanted to shave it off and inhale it."

"Before you hate something you should try to understand it."

"Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding"

"Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding"

"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."

"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

"Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."

"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."

"To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know."

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."