Quotes About Comprehension

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.

How very learned many a man would be if he knew everything that was in his own books! The

Assim como todo excesso numa atividade costuma levar ao contrário do que se pretendia, as palavras servem de fato para tornar os pensamentos compreensíveis, mas só até certo ponto. Quando esse ponto é ultrapassado, elas tornam os pensamentos a serem comunicados mais e mais obscuros. Encontrar tal ponto é uma tarefa do estilo e uma questão da capacidade de julgar, pois toda palavra supérflua age diretamente contra seu objetivo.

Není nic t?žšího než vyjádÃ…â"¢it významnou myÅ¡lenku tak, aby jí každý rozumÄ›l.

Autorytety, których przeciwnik wcale nie rozumie, po wiÄ™kszej cz??ci oddziaÅ'ywajÄ… najsilniej.

Como seriam eruditos alguns autores se soubessem tudo o que está em seus próprios livros!) Por isso, seu texto costuma ter um sentido tão indeterminado que os leitores quebram em vão a cabeça na tentativa de descobrir o que eles pensam afinal. Eles simplesmente não pensam.

Não há nada mais fácil do que escrever de tal maneira que ninguém entenda; em compensação, nada mais difícil do que expressar pensamentos significativos de modo que todos os compreendam.

O, wie wenig muss doch einer zu denken gehabt haben, damit er soviel hat lesen können!

Leer es pensar con la cabeza de otro en lugar de con la propia.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken.

There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained to him; a third, neither of himself nor when it is put clearly before him.

Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one.

this claim makes little sense.

The discussions were sparsely attended and mostly went over my head:

She misinterprets this as a question.

The message, however, was not lost on anyone.

At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory

It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child. It's that the things even a nitwit could do with little or no instruction often confused me.

It takes two people looking in all directions at once to see everything.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.

Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.

A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible therefore is unknowable. By examining future stages in the evolution of language we come to learn what discoveries, changes and social revolutions the language will be capable, some day, of reflecting.