Quotes About Comprehension

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

What we understand and love understands and loves us also.

Understand the poem not the poet.

Nothing about you, my dear, has ever been lost on me.

And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.

When we see somebody in a difficult situation, we can understand them only if we had the same experience and had lived through it. Otherwise, we just think we know.

The art of being a good listener.

Train yourself to listen attentively when other people are speaking.

Knowledge of the merchandise.

The man who can intelligently use the knowledge possessed by another is as much or more a man of education as the person who merely has the knowledge but does not know what to do with it. The

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper.

it is impossible for our brain to see anything in raw form without some interpretation. We may not even always be conscious of it.

Humans somehow fail to recognize situations outside the contexts in which they usually learn about them.

We do not realize the full extent of the difference between near and far futures. Yet

For The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism.

Mathematics is not just a numbers game, it is a way of thinking.

What makes life simple is that the robust and antifragile don't have to have as accurate a comprehension of the world as the fragile—and

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

Usually, what we call a "good listener" is someone with skillfully polished indifference.