Quotes About Comprehension

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Love follows knowledge.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message.

himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.

We are well advised to take on challenges at precisely the rate that engages and compels alertness, and forces the development of courage, skill, and talent, and to avoid foolhardy confrontation with that which lies beyond current comprehension.

The Word that produces order from chaos sacrifices everything, even itself, to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity.

We process the unknown world from the bottom up. We encounter containers of information, so to speak, whose full import is by no means self-evident.

It is possible that you have misinterpreted the situation entirely, for reasons of which you remain fundamentally unconscious.

Sometimes you have to change the way you understand everything to properly understand a single something.

próxima vez que se encontraran en una discusión: «Detén la discusión un momento e introduce esta regla: "Cada persona puede decir lo que piensa solo después de repetir las ideas y sentimientos de la persona que acaba de hablar de forma minuciosa, con una formulación que esa persona apruebe"».

Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand. When we teach mathematics we are supposed to be explaining how to be that guide. A math course that fails to do so is essentially training the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel.

One of the great joys of mathematics is the incontrovertible feeling that you've understood something the right way, all the way down to the bottom; it's a feeling I haven't experienced in any other sphere of mental life. And when you know how to do something the right way, it's hard-for some stubborn people, impossible-to make yourself explain it the wrong way.

It's not like that, as we've seen. Mathematicians aren't crazy, and we aren't aliens, and we aren't mystics. What's true is that the sensation of mathematical understanding-of suddenly knowing what's going on, with total certainty, all the way to the bottom-is a special thing, attainable in few if any other places in life. You feel you've reached into the universe's guts and put your hand on the wire. It's hard to describe to people who haven't experienced it.

You can explain it to a Congressman in six minutes and he can talk about it for six months.

linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand. When we teach mathematics we are supposed to be explaining how to be that guide. A math course that fails to do so is essentially training the student to be a very slow, buggy version of Microsoft Excel.

Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or deciding whether the method is the right one to use in the first place—requires a guiding human hand.

Tot allò. L'Eduard Calvo va adonar-se que era un eufemisme estrany.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.