A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Dee Hock

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Ralph Ellison

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
Gerald R. Ford

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
David Hume

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Vernon Howard

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering