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Quotes About Comprehension

But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.
~ Tayari Jones
Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.
~ Tayari Jones
But how you feel love and understand love are two different things. Now, so many years down the road, I recognize that I was alone and adrift and that he was lonely in the way that only a ladies' man can be. He reminded me of Atlanta, and I reminded him of the same. All these were reasons why we were drawn to each other, but standing with him outside of Maroons, we were past reason. Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.
~ Tayari Jones
But how you feel love and how you understand love are two different things
~ Tayari Jones
how you feel love and understand love are two different things. Now, so many years down the road, I recognize that I was alone and adrift and that he was lonely in the way that only a ladies' man can be. He reminded me of Atlanta, and I reminded him of the same. All these were reasons why we were drawn to each other, but standing with him outside of Maroons, we were past reason. Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.
~ Tayari Jones
Hay muchos que nacen mentalmente analfabetos y tienen un lugar en el mundo. Son como cuervos, cuyas lenguas sólo son capaces de escupir, que aprenden palabras sin saber su significado.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Say nothing if you don't understand, stay silent if you do.
~ Ted Bell
Experience is algorithmically incompressible.
~ Ted Chiang
what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?
~ Ted Chiang
After I've translated all that I know into this language, the patterns I seek should become evident.
~ Ted Chiang
Jijingi realized that, if he thought hard about it, he was now able to identify the words when people spoke in an ordinary conversation. The sounds that came from a person's mouth hadn't changed, but he understood them differently; he was aware of the pieces from which the whole was made. He himself had been speaking in words all along. He just hadn't known it until now.
~ Ted Chiang
I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully in the necessity of events, as the must, instead of merely wading in its surf for the rest of my life.
~ Ted Chiang
Comprendo la Palabra, y los medios por los que opera, y de esta forma me disuelvo
~ Ted Chiang
You could not find the places where words began and ended by listening. The sounds a person made while speaking were as smooth and unbroken as the hide of a goat's leg, but the words were like the bones underneath the meat, and the space between them was the joint where you'd cut if you wanted to separate it into pieces. By leaving spaces when he wrote, Moseby was making visible the bones in what he said.
~ Ted Chiang
It is possible to be well-educated and still not understand life. 
~ Tedd Tripp
The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts of another.
~ Tedd Tripp
If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.
~ Bill Browder
I understand Spanish better than I speak it.
~ Julian Castro
I try to speak in a way that people can understand.
~ John Kennedy
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
~ Azim Premji
I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
~ Noah Hathaway
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
~ Jennifer Lynch
If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.
~ Chloe Bennet
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
~ Hal Linden