Quotes About Comprehension

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

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.

Put knowledge in the hands of stupid people, and it just made them more stupid.

Well look and see what this very same Job has to say, that book which everyone reads, but no one understands

I stared until I was blind at the fact that Otto didn't understand me. It never occurred to me that I didn't understand him.

Dogs know things. They know and know and know.

baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9

Každý, kdo pÃ…â"¢emýÅ¡lí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zato?ila hlava, jí nerozumí.

Feci presto a imparare a leggere.Tuttavia il mio pensiero si fermò a metà strada. Vedevo nell'immagine grafica l'esatto duplicato del suono che ad essa corrispondeva:emanavano insieme dalla cosa che esprimevano, e pertanto il loro rapporto non aveva nulla di arbitrario. La comprensione del segno non portò con se quella della convenzione.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Méthode pour comprendre les images, les symboles. etc. Non pas essayer de les interpréter, mais les regarder jusqu'à ce que la lumière jaillisse.

Asombrarse de la gracia de Dios es un signo de vitalidad espiritual. Es una prueba de fuego de cuán firme y real es nuestra comprensión del evangelio cristiano y cuán cerca caminamos de Jesucristo. El cristiano en crecimiento descubre que la gracia de Dios asombra y sorprende.

She knows all about lite'ature except maybe how to read. .

Doremus understood John Brown much better.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

That's rather a broad idea, I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, he answered.

Watson, posee usted el don inapreciable de saber guardar silencio…

Ai— now I can see it all, clear as day.

You become what you understand.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.