Don't Settle For Less Than Understanding Something Important For Yourself

You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

Don't Settle For Less Than Understanding Something Important For Yourself.
 - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Understand More, Fear Less

Open Minds

Seek the Truth

Knowledge is Soon Changed

Listen, Really Listen to Understand
     

Understanding is Beyond Knowing Facts

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Further reading: Open Minds

Knowledge is Soon Changed

Understand More, Fear Less

Listen, Really Listen to Understand

Seek the Truth
     

True Understanding

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

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies

Further reading: Listen, Really Listen to Understand

Open Minds

Understand More, Fear Less

Knowledge is Soon Changed

Seek the Truth