Quotes About Comprehension

I rather think he knew anyway.

Knowledge is power, but powerless If you've got it and you do not acknowledge it

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Cuanto más leía, más insondables le parecían los abismos de su ignorancia.

En nuestro país, a causa de la escasa experiencia en tentativas de transformar la historia en novela, se exige todavía a los libros que sean legibles y sobre todo que se entiendan. Es decir, que estén al nivel mental de quienes los lean, lo que nos lleva a que se jaleen, con alegría irresponsable, obras de escritores poco exigentes, aunque ese vergonzoso jaleo, por fortuna, no todo el mundo lo acepta, o mejor dicho, llega a entenderlo

I remember always thinking that life itself doesn't actually exist, because if no one tells it as a story or turns it into a narrative, life is merely something that happens, nothing more. To understand life, you have to tell it, even if only to yourself. This doesn't mean that a story can make life comprehensible, because there are always gaps in any narrative, whatever sutures or remedies you might try to apply. That is why a narrative only restores life in fragmentary form.

You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

Success comes in an emerging set of abstract concepts that make sense of all the detail

The goal is that not only can a developer understand what the code does; he or she can also understand why it does what it does and can relate that to the ongoing communication with the domain experts.

We haven't done much writing code, but we are reading and understanding code, and that can be just as good. So

maybe when my mother claimed there was no word for love, she was really saying that no word could encompass all the different ways we find it.

The collie heard the word "lass," and barked at it. The pedlar shook his head. "Nay, that's the pity of it. Ye can understand some o' man's language, but man isn't bright enough to understand thine. And yet it's us that's supposed to be most intelligent!

In the process, he came to understand a crucial principle of brain function: our brain takes the incomplete information about the outside world that it receives from our eyes and makes it complete.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.

Being smart and acting stupid are two different things.

she really could hear, like Edmund says

Er sagt "Ich kann dich lesen wie ein offenes Buch" und er glaubt, dass er jedes Buch, das er liest, auch verstehen kann.

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

Many are waiting for to the day they can say "Eureka!, I have found it! ". They are not waiting for some kind of device that has still to be invented. They are anticipating the moment all scattered pieces of their life can be gathered. All essential parts of the intricate make-up of their identity are waiting to be revealed and comprehended. The magic "Eureka moment" allows them to enliven and dress up their expectations for the future. ("Waiting for Eureka" )