Quotes About Comprehension

Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed.

Dünyada hâlâ bir de?er ta??yan topu topu birkaç ?ey hakk?nda hiçbir anlay?? ve duyarl?l??a sahip olmayan insanlar?n bulunmas? beni ç?ld?rtacak, Wilhelm.

Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.

Was du nicht verstehen kannst, kannst du nicht besitzen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Estamos acostumbrados a que los seres humanos se rían de lo que no entienden, a que rezonguen ante lo bueno y lo bello, que a menudo les resulta fastidioso

Perché solo quando siamo in grado di profondamente comprendere un sentimento, noi possiamo avere il giusto criterio di parlarne.

Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir bewusst.

Beim Übersetzen muss man bis ans Unübersetzbare herangehen; alsdann wird man aber erst die fremde Nation und die fremde Sprache gewahr.

What do you mean,who? You just saw me talking to her!" "If anyone was with you when I arrived, I'm afraid I didn't notice. My eyes were only on you.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de tres bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

You have to try to imagine an ideal reader, who's neither stupid nor able to know what your thoughts are.

Seeing comes before words. A child looks and recognises before it can speak

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

She wasn't sure what he meant by 'surquedry', other than probably meaning he thought she was a lippy bitch

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in huge libraries filled with books, in fantastic amounts of data stored on servers. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative.

The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him

The greatest pleasure in life is to be understood, is it not? But who in the world does an artist like you or me find to understand

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension. . . . We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds. Since

borderline simpleton.