Quotes About Comprehension

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge .

So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don't really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!

We had the experience but missed the meaning, an approach to the meaning restores the experience

With words, with language, we could extract a great deal of knowledge about our living situation without always having to experience its harsh lessons directly.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

If you give me enough years and a wise wife, I can eventually start piecing things together. And it helps if that wife pieces them together for me and simply tells me.

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

nothing in the literal meaning of those sentences blocks those wrong interpretations. In each case we understand the verb differently, even though its literal meaning is constant, because in each case our interpretation depends on our Background abilities.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

But could something think, understand, and so on solely in virtue of being a computer with the right sort of program? Could instantiating a program, the right program of course, by itself be a sufficient condition of understanding?" This I think is the right question to ask, though it is usually confused with one or more of the earlier questions, and the answer to it is no.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until personal experience has brought it home

We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.