Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

We need to understand what we can do and how. Otherwise we will never do it.

She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

"I'm afraid I'm not very good at understanding things like that." "You say that, but what you really mean is: 'I don't want to understand things like that.' " "It's true," she admitted.

She didn’t exactly understand what she was doing, but she rarely did. Art wasn’t about understanding, but about knowing.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try. (p6)

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

I don't understand the world."
"I don't either. I wonder if anyone does. We all remain children, no matter how much time goes by. We don't understand anything.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way — by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't ... Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.