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Man know much more than he understands.
-Alfred Adler
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
-Neil Armstrong
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
-James Barrie
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
-Charles Baudelaire
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
-Sir Isaiah Berlin
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
-William Blake
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Understanding brings control.
-Bonewitz
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The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world.
-Medard Boss
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A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.
-Medard Boss
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
-Andre Breton
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
-Pearl Buck
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The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
-Professor William Buechner
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The key to why things change is the key to everything.
-James Burke
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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
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
-G. K. Chesterton
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
-G. K. Chesterton
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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
-Rene Coty
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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
-Stephen Covey
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Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
-Michael Davis
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I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Books about Understanding
