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

2000s, Change and Determination: After 9/11, a shaking up (2002)

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American journalist 1963

John Berryman book The Dream Songs

Source: The Dream Songs

“Dear premies, I guess this is the last night of this festival, of this Guru Puja and really, what have we understood? Really, in one way, what can we understand? What is there to understand? And it's just like sometimes you just feel, Understand? When I use the word understand … But there is nothing to understand! And if there is something to understand, there is only one thing to understand, and that is to surrender!”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

The essence of everything., Dortmund Germany October 1, 1978, published by the DLM in The Golden Age No 51, February 1979
1970s

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

“The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Letter to Mary Jane Truman (14 November 1947)

“You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter and suddenly having an actor say your words and making them come to life. That I can understand. Finally, I'm starting to understand this.”

Reese Witherspoon (1976) American film actress and producer

Interview for Vogue magazine, November 2008.

“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.”

Paul Tournier (1898–1986) Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor

Source: To Understand Each Other

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand."”

Frank Herbert book The Godmakers

The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
The Godmakers (1972)

“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

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

Alain de Botton book Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

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

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

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

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