Quotes About Comprehension

I feel I do not have script sense. Like Kartik Aaryan has a very good script sense.

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Ultimately no one can hear in things?books included?more than he already knows. If you have no access to something from experience, you will have no ear for it.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader.

Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

But an essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world! Suppose that one assessed the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, put into formulas; how absurd such a 'scientific' assessment of music would be! What would one have comprehended, understood, known about it? Nothing, absolutely nothing of what is really 'music' in it!

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.

numbed brain a few seconds to process the information.

Death was such a mystery. The complete disappearance of something as complex and miraculous as a living, breathing human being had always been beyond her comprehension.

I sat staring at the carpet for the longest time, trying to put everything I'd learned into some sort of meaningful order, but it was like reading late at night, where three minutes in you realize you've read the same paragraph six times and still don't have any idea what it's about.

If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs. I

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Toda verdad es fácil de comprender una vez que ha sido descubierta, el problema es descubrirla