You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.