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It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

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.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.