"The best way is to understand yourself, then you will understand everything."

-- Suzuki Roshi

"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

-- Walt Whitman

"... lately I realized that what I call 'understanding' is basically just fantasizing."

-- David Sedaris

"There can be no greater task than to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination."

-- Noam Chomsky

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation."

-- Krishnamurti

"A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it."

-- Goethe

"When one has understanding, one should laugh; one should not weep."

-- Hsueh-T'ou

"Stopping the mind does not bring wisdom, what brings wisdom is understanding the nature of the mind..."

-- Stephen Levine

"Mystery can be experienced, sensed, felt, appreciated, even loved, without being understood."

-- Gerald May

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

-- Marie Ebner Eschenbach

"It is better to see God in everything than to try and figure it out."

-- Neem Karoli Baba

"There is nothing that you need to understand before you can become present."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The value of a personal relationship to things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love."

-- Anais Nin

"Little flower -- but if I could understand what you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but gratitude is the school of genius."

-- Edward Gibbon

"In the clarity of understanding, forgiveness is unnecessary."

-- Byron Katie

"It's taken all my life to understand that it's not necessary to understand everything."

-- Rene Coty

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."

-- Marie Curie