Quotes About Comprehension

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

I leaned over, took her hands and brought them together, closing her coat. "You know damn well what I think.

There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.

Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita.

Strep. Tell me, O Socrates, I beseech you, by Jupiter, who are these that have uttered this grand song? Are they some heroines? Soc. By no means; but heavenly Clouds, great divinities to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument, and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and ability to hoax, and comprehension

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

A good style must, first of all, be clear.

to be learning something is the greatest of pleasures of mankind, however small their capacity for it; the reason of the delight in seeing the picture is that one is at the same time as learning— gathering the meaning of things

Learning begins at the level of the learner.

The things about which we inquire are equal in number to the things we understand.

Now I understand," said the last man.

No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.

From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logical man could understand oceans and waterfalls without having ever seen or heard of them.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, he answered.

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.

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.

Nada es pequeño para una inteligencia grande.