The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.
Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.
How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.
I'm slow on the uptake about things. I didn't understand that the first Wu Tang album was great when I first heard it.
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.
