Understanding

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

mankind will cease to quarrel with one another, when they understand one another.

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

A friend is a second self.

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself

Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards