Quotes About Comprehension

What good do your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn't kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way.

This gap in understanding between books and screens is big enough that in elementary-school children, it's the equivalent of two-thirds of a year's growth in reading comprehension.

Your pain makes sense

three crucial things that are happening during mind-wandering. First, you are slowly making sense of the world.

Reading books trains us to read in a particular way—in a linear fashion, focused on one thing for a sustained period. Reading from screens, she has discovered, trains us to read in a different way—in a manic skip and jump from one thing to another.

the faster you make them go, the less they will understand. More speed means less comprehension. ...This showed there's just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain's ability to understand it instead. The scientists investigating this also discovered that if you make people read quickly, they are much less likely to grapple with complex or challenging material. They start to prefer simplistic statements.

More speed means less comprehension.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

A person hears only what they understand.

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Una palabra sensata se atrofia en un oído duro.