Quotes About Comprehension

we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Bienaventurados los que no hablan; porque ellos se entienden!

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for." (p 114)

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for." (Gilead, p 114)

If different systems don't merge in a comprehensible way, that's a flaw in our comprehension and not a flaw in one system or the other.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

Many of the things overheard were redolent of deeper knowledge.

objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man.

That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds.

And now if I don't know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or I walk away.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is... what he will know.

If you can't see the forest for the trees, then look at the trees; when you've looked at enough trees, you've seen a forest, you've got it.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.

That's right: statistics show that fewer than 10% of people who buy a book ever read past the first chapter.

It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study, said Mr. Monk, and very often do not do so even then. We are very apt to think that we men and women understand one another; but most probably you know nothing even of the modes of thought of the man who lives next door to you.

Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.

Servants are wonderful actors, looking often as though they knew nothing when they know everything, — as though they understood nothing, when they understand all.

A joke that required to be laughed at was, with him, not worth uttering. He could appreciate by a keener sense than that of his ears the success of his wit, and would see in the eyes of his audience whether or no he was understood and appreciated.

He certainly was no fool. He had read much, and, though he generally forgot what he read, there were left with him from his readings certain nebulous lights, begotten by other men's thinking, which enabled him to talk on most subjects. It cannot be said of him that he did much thinking for himself; — but he thought that he thought.

And it was as if all these details were connected, that they were like the separate letters of a word in an unknown language and that, if only she could understand the word, she would understand everything.