I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.
To understand is, above all, to unify.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.