Quotes About Comprehension

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood about I felt.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

I realized all those times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought only I wore, the feelings only I felt. Until now, this moment, as our eyes met. If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

I loved him so much," I said. "No one can even understand what losing him was like." "That's the thing, though." He exhaled, looking down. "I wasn't trying to get what it was about him. I just felt that finally, maybe, i was starting to understand you.

But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it and understand

anubhav?vas?nameva vidy? phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidy? is anubhava.

One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow.

You were lucky even then to make yourself understood. And this happened over and over and over with everyone you met. You had to translate and translate, explain and explain, back and forth, and it was the punishment of hell itself not to understand or be understood, not to know the crazy from the sane, the wise from the fools, the young from the old or the sick from the well.

B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge.

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

The Knowledge Formula: The More You Know, the More You Can Know

Anyone who is confident in the face of great complexity is insane.

it helps to see the world as math and not magic.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

Es ist ein großer Unterschied, ob ich lese zum Genuss und Belebung oder zur Erkenntnis und Belehrung.

El diablo es viejo; envejeced, pues, para comprenderlo.

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.

You need just what you do not know, and what you really know is worthless.

Men always believe, when they hear words, [2565] There must be thought behind them, too.

Man despises What he never comprehends, And the Good and the Beautiful vilipends, Finding them often hard to measure: Will the dog, like man, snarl his displeasure?