Subject: Intelligence » Understanding

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

If you understand it, it's obsolete.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

In mathematics you don't understand things… you just get used to them.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Do you follow where I'm coming from?

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

You never catch on until after the test.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

(1923 – 1966) stand-up comedian, writer, social critic & satirist

Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it; the piece will make perfect sense without it.

A child of five would understand this; send someone to fetch a child of five.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

The first coherent line ever spoken was ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about.’

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.

(1892 – 1965) English physicist