Quotes About Comprehension

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn't listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.

It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are.

I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over a man who can't them

persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. –

only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

CzÅ'owiek, który nie czyta ksi??ek, nie ma ?adnej przewagi nad tym, który nie potrafi czyta?.