“If you don't learn how to understand the world, then don't be surprised if it fails to understand you.”
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“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
In Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program (2005) by Rebecca Herold, p. 101

[NewsBank, 3, Sarah Whitman, Age-old feud: In the beginning, Tampa Bay Times, Florida, February 7, 2014]

“I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?”

preface to 2015 edition of Secrets and Lies
Cryptography
Context: A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

“Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.”
"Flatlander" (1967), first published in If (March 1967)