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Quotes About Comprehension

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.
~ Frank Herbert
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
~ Frank Herbert
Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.
~ Frank Herbert
Za razumijevanje su potrebne rije?i. No neke stvari se ne mogu svesti na rije?i. A neke druge stvari se mogu doživjeti samo bez rije?i.
~ Frank Herbert
And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.
~ Frank Herbert
For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn.
~ Frank Herbert
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
~ Frank Herbert
And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed.
~ Frank Herbert
Pour bien gouverner, il faut apprendre le langage du monde qui est le vôtre et qui est différent sur chaque monde. [...] Elle voulait parler du langage des rochers et des choses vivantes, ce langage que l'on ne peut entendre avec ses seules oreilles.
~ Frank Herbert
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
~ Frank McCourt
Dad says I'll understand when I grow up. He tells me that all the time now and I want to be big like him so that I can understand everything. It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything. I wish I could be like all the big people in the church, standing and kneeling and praying and understanding everything.
~ Frank McCourt
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
~ Franz Kafka
I always succeed in not being jealous but only sometimes in comprehending the pointlessness of jealousy.
~ Franz Kafka
Milena lütfen bana yard?m edin! Söyleyebildiklerimden daha da fazlas?n? anlamaya çal???n.
~ Franz Kafka
Ce n'est pas à l'ampleur du travail que celle du cas se mesure, si vous avez de telles idées vous êtes encore bien loin de comprendre l'administration.
~ Franz Kafka
Zijn hersens kenden fijnere nuances dan moderne hersens kunnen bevatten.
~ Franz Kafka
correct understanding of a matter and misunderstanding the matter are not mutually exclusive.
~ Franz Kafka
Czy pani rozumie, droga panienko, co to za nag?a uciecha, gdy si? zosta?o tak ?wietnie zrozumianym, mimo ?e nawet si? do tego nie zmierza?o?
~ Franz Kafka
Knowledge must seep into your blood, into your self, not just into your head, you must live it.
~ Franz Kafka
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
~ Alexander Pope
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
~ James Madison
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
~ Alec Baldwin
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
~ Stephenie Meyer
We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.
~ Sal Khan