Quotations on Understanding
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
-Charles F. Kettering
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
-John Locke
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
-Letitia E. Landon
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
-Alice Walker

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