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

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.

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

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

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

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'