When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor-all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked-who is good? Not that men are ignorant-what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

The well fed does not understand the lean.

It's taken all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

If you truly want to understand something, try to change it.

I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.