Quotes About Comprehension

Often we see the situation (A) and the reaction (C) but are unaware of the interpretation (B).

Do you really think the munificence of the multiverse comes translatable for your little mind? Have you ever thought to consider all that you miss whenever you're shown what is suited to your seeing?

Los mejores recolectores de palabras eran los que comprendían el verdadero poder de las palabras, los que subían más alto.

Si domandò quando esattamente i libri e le parole avessero incominciato a significare non solamente qualcosa, ma tutto.

From Liesel's position, their voices were only sounds. Not words at all.

There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample the complex dimensions and flavors of words and phrases. They strive for totality not lineality. They are well aware that the words on the page have to be decanted with the utmost skill. Those who imagine they read only for content are illusioned.

Ei accept? numai ceea ce tocmai le iese în cale, ceea ce îi m?guleÅŸte ÅŸi le este cunoscut. Sunt asemenea câinilor: "C?ci câinii latr? ÅŸi ei la toÅ£i cei pe care nu-i cunosc".

How many Germans live who speak their mother tongue effortlessly and yet are unable to understand Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or one of Hölderlin's hymns! Hence whoever has mastered the Greek language, or has some acquaintance with it by accident or choice, possess not the least proof thereby that he is able to think according to the thought of a Greek thinker.

Initially we understand nothing at all, and for this reason we ask.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best.

He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said. But which half did they mean?

My mind is like a crowded box-room with packets of all sorts stowed away therein—so many that I may well have but a vague perception of what was there.

Stanley Hopkins was speechless with amazement. I don't know what to say, Mr. Holmes, he blurted out at last, with a very red face. It seems to me that I have been making a fool of myself from the beginning. I understand now, what I should never have forgotten, that I am the pupil and you are the master. Even now I see what you have done, but I don't know how you did it or what it signifies.

a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick;

Todos los problemas le parecen infantiles después de que se los hayan explicado.

Nuestras ideas deben ser tan amplias como la naturaleza si aspiran a interpretarla.

No veo nada- respondí [...] -Muy al contrario, Watson, lo ve usted todo. Sin embargo, no razona a partit de lo que ve

a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

If we are distracted and read thoughtlessly, and then realize that we have indeed taken in all the words, but no concepts.