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Quotes About Comprehension

ideas do not truly sink in when emotions come into play;
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What is easy to conceive is clear to express / Words to say it would come effortlessly.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
La maldición de la modernidad es que cada vez estamos más colonizados por una clase de personas cuya capacidad para explicar las cosas supera a su capacidad de comprensión. O cuya capacidad explicativa supera a sus acciones.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
we do not have the mental power to absorb all information and tend to be confused by details)
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am simplifying numbers here for clarity.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Real mathematicians understand completeness, real philosophers understand incompleteness, the rest don't formally understand anything.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don't understand.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even from an anatomical perspective, it is impossible for our brain to see anything in raw form without some interpretation. We may not even always be conscious of it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Almost anything around us of significance is hard to grasp linguistically—and in fact the more powerful, the more incomplete our linguistic grasp.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will percieve the divine mystery in things. Once you percieve it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
~ Nathanael West
Each person has a unique mixture of intelligences, or ways of understanding the world—linguistic, logical, mathematical, spatial, musical, physical
~ Nathaniel Branden
There is perhaps nothing more important to know about children than that they need to make sense out of their experience.
~ Nathaniel Branden
The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The fact that it was not human meant that it could never understand certain things, in spite of its immense empathy and intellect. It couldn't comprehend, for instance, that the terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear.
~ Neal Shusterman
But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.
~ Neal Shusterman
So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.
~ Neal Shusterman
I wish I knew where he was today, so I could tell him I understand how it was. And how easy it is to suddenly find yourself alone in the playground.
~ Neal Shusterman
Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts.
~ Neal Shusterman
The Thunderhead has its reasons for everything," the nonplussed colleague said. "The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.
~ Neal Shusterman
The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.
~ Neal Shusterman
if one is found just start the rest and u might understand what comes next
~ neal shutterman