Quotes About Comprehension

A language is everything you do.

So few people understand about anything.

It was as if they could read each other's minds. No, not minds: each other's mindlessness.

at a time, a quick move of the head, up and down, to the side and back. We have learned to see the world

Why should I need to explain you

What were these animals then? They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

To them it was a pleasurable outing. What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. And so often we sit beside one another, unknowing.

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find that their wives do have sense? Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

What did they know about you? I know you.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

There are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...

we should see what was there, and know what was what, and be much less frightened than by only seeing bits of things that we can't understand.