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.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
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.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
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.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.