Quotes About Comprehension

Getting a good grasp of your life and what's going on around you is so important.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don't only listen to the guitar player.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love. That

How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension! —Psalm 147:5

You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.

He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

With the evolution of eyes came the possibility of visual ornaments. With the evolution of bird ears came the possibility of the bird song. And perhaps, with the evolution of language comprehension abilities in our ancestors, came the possibility of sexual selection for much more complicated thoughts and feelings expressed through language.

Aber die Philosophie soll keine Erzählung dessen sein, was geschieht, sondern eine Erkenntnis dessen, was wahr darin ist, und aus dem Wahren soll sie ferner das begreifen, was in der Erzählung als ein bloßes Geschehen erscheint.

To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgement and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all.

Not, is it simple, but, is it clear.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

It is our habit to say that while the lower nature can never understand the higher, the higher nature commands a complete view of the lower. But I think the higher nature has to learn this comprehension, as we learn the art of vision, by a good deal of hard experience, often with bruises and gashes incurred in taking things up by the wrong end, and fancying our space wider than it is.

Sir James paused. He did not usually find it easy to give his reasons: it seemed to him strange that people should not know them without being told, since he only felt what was reasonable. At

am sure you could teach me a thousand things—as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily