Quotes About Comprehension

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

As we suspend the notion of our preeminent and dominating intelligence, we might open to a universe filled with life-forms different from ourselves to whom we might be connected in ways we do not yet comprehend.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

yes, I wrote that for you, who can't sort out lie from lay no matter how often I explain it - crayons and perfume - you still don't get it ...

when he heard the voice, he knew for

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

procurar que entendiese que conocer los hechos no implica necesariamente comprenderlos.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

She has the acuity to sit inside an emotion and parse it.

worldview. "So?" "You knew that?

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

To speak less learnedly, and more intelligibly

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.