Quotes About Comprehension

Most people, in my experience, are a little thick. If not abundantly so.

I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I want to know which words they are.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Was bad language used?" asked Colonel Melchett. "It depends on what you call bad language." "Could you understand it?" I asked. "Of course I could understand it." "Then it couldn't have been bad language," I said. Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously. "A refined lady," I explained, "is naturally unacquainted with bad language.

But, mind you, very few people would understand that point of view. Most people, you see, haven't got any imagination

Do you know what I've been thinking, Tommy?" "It's impossible to say," replied her husband. "You think of so many things, and you think of them all at once.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam. "Even if it's something they don't know they know.

It's really what people call intuition and make such a fuss about. Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. You catch my meaning, Vicar?

It is always easier, Madame, to tell a thing to someone who already has a very good idea of what it is.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. You catch my meaning, Vicar?

What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.

I had little to do save nod my head and look intelligent—and that last is perhaps over optimistic.

But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things?

People who don't understand want to know, but people who know, don't want to understand.

Each of us can know only a part of the whole that constitutes truth.

There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third. —John F. Kennedy

We were developing empathy and the ability to be aware of what was happening in the mind of another person. This, we realized, is the key, the fundamental ingredient without which real communication can't happen. Developing empathy and learning to recognize what the other person is thinking are both essential to good communication, and are what this book is about.

Communication doesn't take place because you tell somebody something. It takes place when you observe them closely and track their ability to follow you. Like

Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so as to understand it.

You can know something in your head but not in your heart.

Know what you are talking about.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure realized that what you heard isn't what I meant