Language Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word…

— John Searle

“Understanding has more value than knowledge.”

— Steven Redhead

“How can you gain a full understanding of a subject when you don't understand the words used to explain it? Well, that's why words…

— Michael Matthews

“There is a big difference between knowing a lot and understanding things.”

— Steven Redhead

“If you don’t understand something, you should just try to learn more, that’s all.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

— Robert Ley

“You cannot use a word properly if you don’t know precisely what it means.”

— Shion Miura

“If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much…

— Hans Christian Von Baeyer

“I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.”

— Nikhil Sharda

“understanding something didn’t make it easier.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot