The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
Chinese Proverb
Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide."
Samuel Butler
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Norman Vincent Peale
Life only gives us exactly what we ask for, both good and bad. The real challenge is in understanding the subtle ways in which we ask.
Bryant McGill
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Embla lies with each thing, Ask looks and knows. Understanding without explanation they depart and separate.
John Carder Bush
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
Francis Bacon
Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.
Benedict of Nursia
If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead. We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another.
Samuel Butler
In the highest consciousness there is still unconsciousness, in the lowest unconsciousness there is still consciousness. If there is no consciousness there is no thing, or nothing. To understand perfectly would be to cease to understand at all.
Samuel Butler