What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation.
Focus on interests, not positions.
Tactical empathy is understanding the feelings and mindset of another in the moment and also hearing what is behind those feelings.
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
Everything you say to a person is filtered through their frame of reference, biases, and preconceived ideas.
You cannot improve a business model that you do not understand.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The secret to battling cancer is to find its weakness. And the secret to finding its weakness is to understand its strength.
