Quotes About Comprehension

He didn't want her to know that he didn't understand, but what he didn't realize was that she didn't understand either, so that if he had just told her he didn't understand, she would have understood, but when he told her he understood, then she didn't understand.

She's right; the lad is lonely. I'll see what these little girls can do for him, thought Mr. Laurence, as he looked and listened. He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him; and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.

The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.

Knowledge of a subject doesn't necessarily mean you can do anything with it. That would require skill. Likewise, a student can commit something to memory with no knowledge whatsoever. A grade-schooler, for example, might be able to recite the multiplication table perfectly, but still be unable to solve simple math problems. Coming to know something implies the goal of being able to use the knowledge, while being aware of facts or figures does not. Of

All this became evident to us

Chápání v pojmech by mÄ›lo být v jistém smÄ›ru ?erpáno z nashromáždÄ›ného pokladu pamÄ›ti. ÄŒím více ví mladý ?lovÄ›k z pamÄ›ti pÃ…â"¢ed pojmovým chápáním, tím lépe... Není jistÄ› tÃ…â"¢eba výslovnÄ› dovozovat, že toto platí jen pro vÄ›k, o nÄ›mž je tu Ã…â"¢e? (7 až 14 let), nikoli pro pozdÄ›jÅ¡í dobu.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

know too much, young un, said Billy, and that is one

besides, this is much too good to tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They'd never understand. They play cricket, and say, 'Yes sir', and 'Oh, sir', and 'No, sir'.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Pro captu lectoris) habent sua fata libelli. (According to the capabilities of the reader) books have their own destinies. —Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

Confusão možno chápaÃ…Â¥ ako stav neistoty a bezradnosti. Vidíme okolo seba zúriÃ…Â¥ confusão, ale nemôžeme spraviÃ…Â¥ ni?, aby sme ho zastavili. ÄŒo máte nové? Confusão! Každý, kto rozumie významu tohto slova, vie už vtedy vÅ¡etko.

The only fundamental basis for understanding is that one himself becomes what he understands and one understands only in proportion to becoming himself that which he understands.

On aina arveluttavaa leimata absurdiksi, käsittämättömäksi jokin, minkä joku toinen voi selittää helposti ymmärrettäväksi.

If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.

So soon as I talk I express the universal, and if I do not do so, no one can understand me.

if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.

I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.

A book is not completed till it's read.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world.

had sought, and with that comprehension came a new clarity, a return to sanity, and even a kind of wisdom.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I," every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.