Quotes About Comprehension

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.

Estimados caballeros, por nuestra salud mental y emocional, debemos saber que ellas no hablan como nosotros, nunca quieren decir lo que están diciendo, y entenderlas lleva algunos años de entrenamiento; es casi como aprender otro idioma.

Someone once said, "Those who don't read are no better off than those who can't read." How true.

As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited logic that all observed effects may have been wrought by Him in any one of an infinite number of omnipotent ways, and these ways, and these must ever evade mortal comprehension.

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've thought of that'

You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

Science explains everything. But if it doesn't it hasn't yet.

look at me,' said Fitz. 'You lost me somewhere around "substructive". Is that actually a word?

and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

Learn you will never, if attention you do not pay.

Insanity is applying a singular dimensional answer to a multi dimensional experience.

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

We have to know what's meant

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

I express not the word for the word but the sense for the sense.

To try to capture "all the words of a language" is as futile as trying to capture all the drops of water in a flowing river.

Stephen Covey. Ele diz que a maioria das pessoas não escuta com a intenção de compreender, mas de responder.

What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves.

You never know what they mean until you hear what they don't say.