Quotes About Comprehension

The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

However, belief is not the same thing as knowledge, and by deliberately avoiding comprehension of that which we refuse to understand, we confine ourselves to a darkness of our own design.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to life. How a man can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a man can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

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Maria Puder had taught me I had a soul. And now, overcoming a habit of a lifetime, I could see a soul in her. Of course, everyone else in the world was similarly endowed. But most would come into this world and leave it without even knowing what they had missed. A soul only came forward when it found its twin, when it felt no need to rely on mere words to explain itself … It was only then that we truly began to live – live with our soul.

The intellect cannot laugh, it can only dissect.

I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand.

To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken

So we must have a sense of urgency, not only for the ever closer approach of death, but also because our comprehension of the world and our ability to pay proper attention will fade before we do.

Make for thyself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell thyself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved.

To read attentively—not to be satisfied with "just getting the gist of it." And not to fall for every smooth talker.

To read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch.

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully apprehended it.

A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgement on another's acts.

One addition to the precepts already mentioned. Always make a definition or sketch of what presents itself to your mind, so you can see it stripped bare to its essential nature and identify it clearly, in whole and in all its parts, and can tell yourself its proper name and the names of those elements of which it is compounded and into which it will be dissolved.

In conversation keep abreast of what is being said, and, in every effort, of what is being done. In the latter see from the first to what end it has reference, and in the former be careful to catch the meaning.

No te limites en adelante a respirar el aire que te rodea, sino participa dese ahora en la sabiduría de la inteligencia que lo abarca todo, por que esta facultad intelectiva no menos se difundió por todas partes ni menos se introdujo en cada ser capaz de atraerla, que el aire en el ser capaz de respirarlo.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

This book might also be seen as "a Christian primer." A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them. This book's purpose is to help us to read, hear, and inwardly digest Christian language without preconceived understandings getting in the way.

the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.

We understand more than we know.

My audience is God, because who the hell else could understand me?