It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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