Understanding the word understanding

In the beginning there was the word and understanding the word understanding is the beginning of this blog where the daily word guy will build a library of words and hopefully carry the word to others who do not understand.

The word understanding is found 247 million times by the Google robots. It's amazing that people use this word so often when writing.

What does the word understanding mean.

In one sense the word understanding is a contract where the person who claims to have a clear perception of the reasons something happens accepts the conditions of that contract or stands by his or her word about a particular issue.

If one says, "I understand mortgages" then that person is claiming to have knowledge of the concept of loaning money. Making such a statement is taking responsibility for passing information that is correct to the listener.

When someone says, "They have reached an understanding.", they are stating that two people or two parties have come to an agreement on a dividing issue.

Perhaps defining understanding as being a contract might be a little too assumptive. A contract implies that the agreement is binding. Is it?

Having reason is having understanding. So having understanding about something or about words is having wisdom.

Wisdom is understanding but is intelligence wisdom ?

I say no.

Because anyone can be intelligent by learning stuff. But using reason intelligently is having pure understanding.