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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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.
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.
I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY
It's maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand.
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.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood.
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain.
If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.
Sometimes one barely understand oneself.
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.
We should be content with the incomprehensibility of the universe; the desire to understand makes us less than human, for to be human is to know that one does not understand.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
I wish to understand in such a way that everything that is inexplicable shall present itself to me as being necessarily inexplicable, and not as being something I am under an arbitrary obligation to believe.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
It is a luxury to be understood.
It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.
understand them.
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.
Hear the meaning within the word.
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.
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.
You mean something untranslatable.
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
Being that can be understood is language.
Incomprehensible, his colleagues tended to say when they discovered young people who had chosen to take their own lives. Harry assumed they said that to protect themselves, to reject the whole idea of it. If not, he didn't understand what they meant by its being incomprehensible.
It's a luxury to be understood.
I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY.
How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
I wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.
The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.
The incomprehension is when the thing happens without knowing the reasons.
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
I'm not too unintelligent.
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
Some things were beyond understanding.
Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word "impossible" to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know.
The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.
Docility is the observable half of reason.
Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice. Still, no one in the world can understand or practice them.
I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.
When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling
the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.
Some things are more than we can understand.
The simplest things are the hardest to understand.
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.
An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
I cannot be understood in three minutes.
If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so ... there wouldn't be any point to be by your side ... - kakeru manabe
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
It's hard for me to articulate myself.
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.
Grant that I might seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand.
Don't think I'm not incoheret.
Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.
We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a ... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
The comprehensible slips away, is transformed; instead of possession one learns connection.
In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
I believe that God's Word is accessible and understandable to every believer who is willing to put in the time and effort to study it responsibly. I
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.
If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.
We understand what we want to understand.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
Not, is it simple, but, is it clear.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.
for the same things are not 'knowable relatively to us' and 'knowable' without qualification. So in the present inquiry we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, (20) but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature.
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.