~UNDERSTANDING~

"How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always  speak, without even making a sound, to another soul." ~Francis Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

"And that is more or less where we are now. Everywhere understanding. Instead of being unconditionally in love, a marriage of understanding; instead of unconditional obedience, obedience to the force of argument; instead of faith, knowledge of reasons; instead of confidence, guarantees; instead of venturing, probability and shrewd calculation; instead of action, happening; instead of the individual, a few hands; instead of personality, impersonal objectivity, etc." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"I blame no one for anything, they haven't understood me." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"If a person does not become what he can understand, then he does not really understand it." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"People understand me so little that they fail even to understand my complaints that they do not understand me." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"The crowd will always regard a man of great understanding as lacking judgement." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"The plan was a task for self-activity, and to impose my own understanding on the reader seemed to me an offensive and impertinent meddling."~Soren Kierkegaard

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Understanding precedes peace." ~Vanna Bonta

"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it." ~Emerson Pugh