“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link… He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.”

“Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!””

“But understand them, people say. And one does. But sometimes understanding is not comforting or flattering to the understood.”

“And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened, I understood this Being and knew it more clearly than, by speech, reason, or sight, one can know anything that is knowable on earth”

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“Theology today may be understood as a discipline which seeks to understand and determine the underlying truth of all reality.”

“One place understood helps us understand all places better”