Quotes About Comprehension

You read me," Myron said, "like Vasco da Gama reads a map." Dimonte

They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You're numb. You can't adequately accept the grim reality.

Wait." Vic put a hand to his ear, as though straining to hear. He was a small man except for the enormous bowling-ball gut. His face might be called "ferretlike," if the ferret was really ugly. "What?

Simon collapsed into a seat on the subway. He stared out the window across the car without focusing, letting the underground whiz by in a hazy blur. He tried to comprehend what he'd just learned. Nothing made sense. He'd gotten more pieces to the puzzle, important pieces, perhaps even an explanation of what had started his daughter's spiral into drug addiction. But the more pieces he got, the less clear the final image was becoming.

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child.

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you write a history of the whole world, you can't do this. That's the trade-off.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.