We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
Groucho Marx

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.
Henry David Thoreau

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Mike Ditka

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman