Argument Quote by John Searle

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

— Milton Friedman

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

— Baltasar Gracian

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

— Haruki Murakami

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

— Elias Canetti

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

— Jerome Bruner

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

— Ben Casnocha

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

— Quintilian

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

— Franz Kafka

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

— Wayne Dyer

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

— Anonymous

For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do.

— Jerry Lewis

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

— William Poundstone