Quotes About Comprehension

Well, papa, I sometimes wish you wouldn't explain things so much. I seem to understand you all the time you are preaching, but when I try the text afterwards by myself, I can't make anything of it, and I've forgotten every word you said about it. Perhaps that is because you have no right to understand it. I thought all Protestants had a right to understand every word of the Bible, she returned. If they can

To hear one talk is better than to see one.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary. To understand other people.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

Quizá no deseara uno tanto ser amado como ser comprendido.

By lack of understanding they remained sane.

Les meilleurs livres sont ceux qui racontent ce que l'on sait déjà.

When these images clash—as in The Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot—it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood how; he did not understand why.

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They

Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

NASIL'?n? anl?yorum: NEDEN'ini anlam?yorum.

if you have the intelligence to grasp the truth I offer you.

Chacun pourrait intéresser au roman de sa propre vie, s'il l'avait compris...

Chacun pourrait s'intéresser au roman de sa propre vie, s'il l'avait compris...

It was like the baby was demanding, with its eyes: Hurry up, tell me what all this shit is, so I can master it, open a few shops.

Mentre [il lettore] legge, la sua esistenza si accorcia. La sua lettura è un anello nella catena di continuità nella rappresentazione del testo che sottoscrive la sopravvivenza del testo letto.

Leggiamo il libro ma, più profondamente, è il libro a leggere noi.

Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat

They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.