To understand everything is to forgive everything

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love… The love that speaks the language of the world.

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

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

The question “what shall we do about it” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

It is my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

The superior man understands what is right, the inferior man understands what will sell.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

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