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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.