Everyone does and says as much as he has understood.

-Tulsides

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown
we may hope to understand,
but we may have to learn at the same time
a new meaning of the word "understanding".
-Werner Heisenberg

Ultimately, man's intellect demands that his surroundings,
both life and matter, shall be intelligible;
his mind demands order, rationality, logical explanation.
It cannot love in a chaos without suffering;
it must know and understand, if it is to exist in peace.
-A. E. Powell

To understand is hard.
Once you understand it is easy.
-Sun Yat-Sen

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity,
and the lack of it causes the least to take on the magnitude.
-Raymond Holliwell

When we understand a particular thing
we become conscious of its qualities.
-Christian Larson

To understand is to perceive patterns.
-Isaiah Berlin

No mind really understands new ideas
until its thinking concerning these ideas
has been reduced to a system.
-Christian Larson

The growth of understanding
follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
-Joanna Field

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

We see nothing truly
till we understand it.
-John Constable

A criteria for having understanding 

is that you must desire understanding.

-Mike Dooley

To understand takes no time.

-Zen Saying

It is looking at things for a long time
that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding.
-Vincent van Gogh

Understanding requires insight.
Insight must be anchored.
-Brian Greene

A man only understands what is akin
to something already existing inside himself.
-Henri Amiel

Things have to be experienced in order to be understood,
experienced with every fibre of one's being.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books;
it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man.
For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
-Pablo Casals

To understand life,
all you need to do is study what comes your way.
-Vernon Howard

Much learning does not teach understanding.
-Heraclitus

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

If you want to truly understand something,
try to change it.
-Kurt Lewin

It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair

What we do not understand
we do not possess.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And it's inside myself
that I must create someone who will understand.
-Clarice Lispector

To me it's a matter of first understanding
that which may not be put to words.
-William Carlos Williams

Just because we don't understand
doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
-Madeline L'Engle

Those who understand only what can be explained
understand very little.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In what we really understand,
we reason but little.
-William Hazlitt

We understand more than we know.
-Margaret Atwood

Understanding can overcome any situation,
however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
-Norman Vincent Peale

To understand everything is to hate nothing.
-Romain Rolland

Sooner or later each person must find right expression
for what he has understood.
-Rodney Collin

Whatever we understand we express clearly
and words flow with ease.
-Nicholas Boileau

Then you understand it so totally
that you are finished with it.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

The noblest pleasure
is the joy of understanding.
-Leonardo da Vinci

The aim remains: to understand the world.
-John Bell

Don't insist on understanding new things,

but try with your whole self,

with patience, effort and method, 

to comprehend obvious truths.

-Simone Weil

To understand an ancient question.
bring it into the present time.
-William S. Burroughs

To fully understand,
one has to sit down and wait for the universe to enter.
-Brian Swimme

In the most secret part of the understanding,
the simple eye is ever open.
It contemplates and gazes at the Light
with a pure sight that is lit by the Light itself:
eye to eye, mirror to mirror, image to image.
-John van Ruysbroeck

Understanding swallows you up.
-Carl Jung

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
-Carl Sagan

Their naked understanding is penetrated with eternal clarity
as the air is penetrated by the light of the sun.
-John van Ruysbroeck

Whoever rises to pure understanding
becomes that which he understands.
-Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Understand yourself
and you will understand everything.
-D. T.  Suzuki

When you understand one thing through and through,
you understand everything.
-Shunyru Suzuki

Give me understanding and I shall live.
-Kahlil Gibran