I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
It takes me a while to absorb things.
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
I like to say understanding is the power.
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
