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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
I'm easy to understand even when i don't understand myself ...
Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.
It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
Making sense only to yourself is the most feasible test for human personal understanding
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained to him; a third, neither of himself nor when it is put clearly before him.
The burden of being human is that we are blessed with phenomenal comprehension,
but unfortunately we are not granted the ability to grasp it all.
It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates.
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Judgement requires, then, the joint operation of sensibility and understanding. A mind without concepts would have no capacity to think; equally, a mind armed with concepts, but with no sensory data to which they could be applied, would have nothing to think about.
understand them.
Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.
It's a luxury to be understood.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
No matter how enriched your vocabulary is, it's the understanding that matters.
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.
Some things weren't designed to understand.
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it's only sound, and that's not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand.
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.
One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.
The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling
the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,
the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.
We understand what we want to understand.
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood.
Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.
But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people.
Realization is more important than understanding
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
For the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies.
We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.
Understanding, perhaps, but understanding is just a word. No one can understand another person unless he is that other person.
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors
is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
[T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.
Adorkable. It's in its own category.
I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
This lack of translation is a mental handicap that comes with being a human; and we will only start to attain wisdom or rationality when we make an effort to overcome and break through it.
What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.
All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.
When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand ...