Quotes About Comprehension

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

You might want to consider the whole thing from a man's perspective. One's own point of view, Rosemary, is inevitably limited.

So . . . I don't trust you and you don't understand me." He laughed despite himself. "No wonder we get along so well.

She wasn't sure that she wanted to understand the full spectrum of human emotions?everything that remained seemed dire to one degree or another. But this warm, silly mutual delight, this she wouldn't mind experiencing until she comprehended its place in the world.

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

the important thing to learn is to know what people think, not what they say

I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]

Learning is a lot like eating. It is not how much we eat that matters, but what really matters is how much we digest.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The

Maybe that's all there is to it: language, how we employ it to know someone, or love them more deeply.

If we adjudicate an operator's understanding of an unfolding situation against our own truth, which includes knowledge of hindsight, we may learn little of value about why people saw what they did, and why taking or not taking action made sense to them.

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

He handed her a tissue, but she didn't know what a tissue was, so she put it in her mouth and tried to eat it.

You speak the language far better than

There comes a time when we need to realize that we don't know what we do not know, we only know what we know and that's all we know.

Through good listening skills, comes success.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.

Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision ... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory ... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.