Quotes About Understanding

I shall look into your faces, And listen to what you say, And be very often near you, When you think I'm far away.

He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.

If you could not picture what people endured, how could you figure out what drove them to crime?

For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Code that communicates its purpose is very important. I often refactor just when I'm reading some code. That way as I gain understanding about the program, I embed that understanding into the code for later so I don't forget what I learned.

in interaction diagrams], comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

There lies a paradox for a dedicated lover of art such as David or me: we devote a great deal of time and energy in the pursuit of art, diligently visiting museums, galleries, churches, mosques, temples and ruins where it is to be found. But of course much of what we look at was made for completely different reasons by pious Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and Moslems.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

only he who already understands can listen

We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

The Internet offers access, in principle, to an unprecedented variety of opinions and information. Nonetheless, it could narrow understanding and sympathies rather than broaden them: some people may choose to stay closeted within a cybercommunity of the likeminded.

Some people are so smart that they're dumb about the most important things.