Quotes About Comprehension

To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed?

It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.

A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

The sciences alone cannot illuminate the entirety of human experience without the light that comes from the arts and humanities.

neurobiology not only can assist us with the comprehension and compassion of the human condition, but that in so doing it can help us understand social conflict and contribute to its alleviation.

For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

I think you're failing to focus on the big picture." "It's only when one focuses on the small picture," James said, "that the full horror of this scheme becomes apparent.

Despite its cosmopolitan airs, New York manufactures its own distinctive brand of high-IQ hicks: people [...] whose comprehension of the world beyond the Hudson River is willfully nonexistent.

How? How did Jutta understand so much more about how the world worked? While he knew so little?

Grandfather said that the ocean was large enough to contain every dream everyone had ever dreamed, but until now he had no comprehension of what that meant.

To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.

animal love, the love of an animal that has been living in an incomprehensible world until one day it encounters another of its kind and realizes that it has been applying its comprehension in the wrong place all along.

Sometimes I understood what a word meant from reading but had never met it in life.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

could hear his voice. "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas…

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.