Quotes About Comprehension

Si yo escucho, olvido; si yo veo, recuerdo; pero si yo hago, comprendo».

He found he was now incapable of understanding a single word of the volumes he consulted; his very eyes stopped reading, and it seemed as if his mind, gorged with literature and art, refused to absorb any more.

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Describir nunca es bastante.

El buen lector es que tiene casi constantemente la impresión de que no se ha enterado bien.

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.

Las nociones mal digeridas sólo sirven para atorar el entendimiento. Pueblan su memoria

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Those who try to understand life, which, by definition, cannot be understood, are those who do not understand poetry, which is, in short, the only thing that can be understood.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

So?" Alderheart refused to understand.

He tried hard to speak calmly, and to ask sensible questions that would help him understand.

This human understands enough to know when he's being messed with.

Fincher, Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg, Del Toro, Tarantino. And, of course, Kevin Smith. I spent three months studying every John Hughes teen movie and memorizing all the key lines of dialogue. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. You could say I covered all the bases. I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Du kannst nicht zu einem Brunnenfrosch vom Ozean sprechen. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2

Pero a menudo los textos eran jeroglíficos, hay así obras para las cuales no hemos madurado como lectores hasta hoy. Se asemejan a transparentes cuyos letreros son desvelados por el resplandor del mundo del fuego.

The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?