Verb
To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
To stand under; to support.
To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLet us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. Augustine of Hippo
In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We must understand that the human person in reality does not die. Death is simply a transfer from one life to the other. Paisios of Mount Athos
Dogs understand each other by their barking, and men by their words. Somali Proverb
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed. Japanese Proverb
We admire what we do not understand. Hindi Proverb