Failing Quote by David Mitchell

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

— Baltasar Gracian

“People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< +…

— Idries Shah

“Pragmatic Programmers won't sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.”

— Andrew Hunt

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

— Lord Chesterfield

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

— Eugene Ionesco

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah