Quotes About Understanding

If we want to understand other minds, the minds of cephalopods are the most other of all.

With an influx of sensory information comes a need for complex internal processing. When more is known, decisions become more complicated.

Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

3. Me ha pillado en el ¡Ajá!

Stories are not lists, decks, Power-Points, flip charts, lectures, pleas, instructions, regulations, manifestos, calculations, lesson plans, threats, statistics, evidence, orders, or raw facts.

El poder de esos relatos nace de la intensa relación yo-a-nosotros que se forma en cuanto el oyente se da cuenta de que el narrador le está hablando de un sentimiento o una situación que él mismo, como receptor del mensaje, también ha experimentado.

Cuando en una historia el factor yo-a-nosotros es fuerte, el beneficio primario para el narrador es la empatía.

Yo soy tú. Tengo los mismos problemas y frustraciones que tú».

No habrá concluido su tarea hasta que digan «¡Ajá! ¡Ya lo entiendo!»

Which to me means that one must respect not just the story but the way in which it develops; judging the past by the standards of the present sheds little light on understanding, it represents no more than the I-told-you-sos of history.

Look how you figured that out together. You made a plan, you listened to each other, you made a diagram … I don't think you would have figured it out without doing that.

Oh, so if we look at the picture we can tell which word makes sense." Then, rather than praising them, she offers a comment that positions them powerfully: "Thanks for teaching us that.

asking myself from time to time if it might be possible to teach English in such a way that people would stop killing each other

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.

Es gibt nur eine Art und Weise, eine andere Kultur zu verstehen. Sie zu leben. In sie einzuziehen, darum zu bitten, als Gast geduldet zu werden, die Sprache zu lernen. Irgendwann kommt dann vielleicht das Verständnis. Es wird dann immer wortlos sein. In dem Moment, in dem man das Fremde begreift, verliert man den Drang, es zu erklären. Ein Phänomen erklären heißt, sich davon entfernen.

Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.

She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

Deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive. But maybe I'm both weak and brutal.