It is natural that one cannot understand deep and hidden things. Those things that are easily understood are rather shallow.

Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

They didn't put two and two together. They didn't even know what they knew. I don't know what's the matter with people, they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way — by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way — by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

"I'm afraid I'm not very good at understanding things like that." "You say that, but what you really mean is: 'I don't want to understand things like that.' " "It's true," she admitted.

The whole problem, currently, is to have a method of understanding, says the Fool. People have information in spades, but they are incapable of extracting truths that matter. They are content to live at a superficial level of very primary observation and generalization. No one is capable of deepening their analysis to the essential mechanisms of what is happening. However, such deepening obeys rules, which are not very complicated. 117

She could not explain the subtleties of her feeling as clearly as he could state his opinion, even though she had skill in speech, and her father had none.

Xenophanes might be saying that we have only superficial understanding, and we never get to knowledge of the clear truth.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” — Richard Feynman

The words. I couldn’t understand the words. The only means of communication, and they are a deadly barrier.

No words came out of me. Words can also be the feeblest emissaries for our feelings.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.