If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be tenable in your silence still, and whatsoever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.
