Quotes About Comprehension

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I don't know if love's a feeling. Sometimes I think it's a matter of seeing. Seeing you.

Sospechas en mí una sabiduría opuesta a la que te enseñan tus maestros, ves en mi abandono a los sentidos un método de vida contrario a la severidad de la tuya, y sin embargo paralelo. No importa; no hace falta que me comprendas. Hay más de una sabiduría, y todas son necesarias al mundo; no está mal que se vayan alternando.