Quotes About Comprehension

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.

One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

Maria was staring at me like I was wearing purple socks. 'Wow," she said. "That's exactly what music is.' And then she started crying again. But this time, she wept quietly. 'You understand," she said. 'You really understand.

Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn't you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)

Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can't follow what I'm saying? (Simi)

Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.

Is my andarion rusty or did he just call us the ass of a dung beetle

Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd) That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.