Quotes About Comprehension

Unless we remember we cannot understand

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

But books meant so much for him he forgot that they were a bewilderment to others.

If one doesn't worry, how does one understand?

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Sometimes I think if you didn't have me, there wouldn't be a single person in the world who really understood you...

Read wisely for a good book is a faithful friend.

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.

diagnosing a system just for the sake of diagnosis is not very helpful because in any complex system one can diagnose it from multiple points of view, just as a personality can be diagnosed from many points of view.

We use the words relationship, trust, and openness glibly and frequently, as if we think that everyone will, of course, understand what we mean. Yet when we ask someone to define any one of these three words, we get either a blank stare, a disdainful look implying that we must be stupid, or definitions that don't really explain anything and that don't even agree with one another.

I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The romantic view, while not the whole of truth, is a necessary part of the whole truth.

The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.

Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but you do not listen. For a literary man, Watson - and note that I do not comment on the merit of your latest account of my little problems - for a man with the pretenses of being a writer, you are singularly unobservant. Honestly, sometimes I am close to despair.

Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all'ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. - Edward De Bono

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.