Quotes About Comprehension

It had taken decades for her to understand that loneliness wasn't a lack of people in your life, but a lack of people who knew and understood you.

I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later.

You could not have grown up in such a house, that had such businesses in it, without having a pretty good idea of what was what—of what could go into what; and what could come out. Do you follow?

Human beings have a voracious appetite for trying to figure things out in order to gain a sense of mastery over their lives.

Heather cocks her head to one side as if she's trying to make the information roll down a hill in her mind and come to rest in a place she can access it.

During the first year of life, a child acquires the concept of teleomechanical agency: the child is able to perceive an object's physical movement as goal-directed. In the second year, the child develops comprehension of mentalistic agency: the child attributes internal, mental states, such as perception and desire, to actors in predicting or explaining their actions.

Expressing ideas is often the only way to fully understand what ideas are, and to know what it is you really think.

Either we don't read the things we claim we do, or we read them with incompetence, preventing ideas in the book from changing our behavior.

Merely having a function doesn't say anything about how many people can figure it out or are even interested in trying.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension," said Sabetha. "The rest of us certainly have.

Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it.

we should not need a magic wand or a decoder ring to interpret Scripture),

There is a wide gap between admitting that we don't know everything about how the mind works and remembering that whatever it does, it needs to be compatible with the laws of nature.

Everything we want to think about human beings has to be compatible with the nature and behavior of the pieces of which we are made, even if those pieces don't tell the whole story. Understanding what those particles and fields are and how they interact with one another is a crucial part of comprehending what it means to be human.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.