Quotes on Understanding Things

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.