understand

understand

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
To perceive is to suffer.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. Book of a Thousand Days
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Demian
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
If you know the why, you can live any how.
I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Bacchae
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. History of Western Philosophy