"One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly…" — Leo Strauss

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• One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian
• One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho
• Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. — Franz Kafka
• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
• Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. — Baltasar Gracian
• Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. — Alain de Botton
• Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. — Philip Yancey
• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. — Karl Popper
• One has not understood until one has forgotten it. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki