Quotes about Comprehension

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

The feeblest imbecile should be able to see the glaring contradictions in every one of your statements." "Let us put it this way, Dr. Stadler. The man who doesn't see that, deserves to believe all my statements.

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

Just listen and seek to understand.

Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character.

When I say empathic listening, I mean listening with intent to understand. I mean seeking first to understand, to really understand. It's an entirely different paradigm. Empathic (from empathy) listening gets inside another person's frame of reference. You look out through it, you see the world the way they see the world, you understand their paradigm, you understand how they feel.

Seek first to understand. Before the problems come up, before you try to evaluate and prescribe, before you try to present your own ideas—seek to understand.