“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”

“I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.”

Saul Bellow book Henderson the Rain King

“You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.”

Jerry B. Jenkins (1949) novelist, biographer

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“… treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

“He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“i can't understand her"
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven