“In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.”

“Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.”

John Rogers Searle (1932) American philosopher

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“You can't do everything at the same time, don't be too much in a hurry. Space out yourself, rest, understand yourself and love yourself.”

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde (1978) Nigerian actress and singer

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

“I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“One thing I can't keep seem to say,
is I'm not done with you,
still can't get over you,
you don't wanna hear that,
you likely never will,
these dreams I have about you,
this brokenness I feel.”

Marian Renta

“… you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer