Quotes About Comprehension

Porque hay cosas que son como son, y se entienden sin decirlas, o se entienden si no las dices, o se dicen sin entenderlas, pero siguen siendo.

Que los límites de tu lenguaje son los límites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanático de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Alguien como Antonia, que vive encerrada en la prisiòn de su proprio cerebro, percibe con mucha màs claridad que lo demàs seres humanos una verdad inapelable. Que los limites de tu lenguaje son los lìmites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanàtico de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Los niños, en contra de la opinión general de los adultos, no son imbéciles. Son capaces de percibir sentimientos complejos desde muy pequeños.

Que los limites de tu lenguaje son los lìmites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanàtico de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Toda lectura es interpretación, no en el sentido hermeneútico, sino más bien musical del término.

I have just had a thought about the cut of the Minerva's spanker-boom.' 'How little I understand of that sentence,' she said, admiring his drawing. 'And is there truly something on a ship called a f'c'sle? It seems to have an unwarranted excess of apostrophes. My suspicion is that when we landlubbers are not by, seamen do not use these words at all and talk quite normally.

You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.

Deep learning has instead given us machines with truly impressive abilities but no intelligence. The difference is profound and lies in the absence of a model of reality.

you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

Most people don't even understand the present. Why should they understand glimpses of the future?

There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

We have regressed to the times of the wars of religion; divided, betrayed, threatened if we do not think as the others think or if we refuse to use the same formulas and cry the same watchwords. And tomorrow, ready to kill each other in the name of free will. Refusing to consider the realities he finds disagreeable, each adversary blinds himself with his own convictions and no longer considers those that might help him to comprehend the problem.

Die Tatsache, dass wahre Schönheit mit Selbstvergessenheit zu tun hatte, passte zum seltsamen Humor des Schöpfers: Jene, die sie besaßen, wussten nichts damit anzufangen, während alle, die etwas davon verstanden, niemals in ihren Besitz gelangten.

Unterschwellig wächst die Angst, irgendwann zu verstehen und nie wieder vergessen zu können, nicht mehr in der Lage zu sein, ins eigene Leben zurückzukehren.

I see you are already learning our beautiful language.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

Admiro tu capacidad para ponerte en la piel de los demás, para comprender sus razones. Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.

Joven, no se impaciente, la vida de las personas tiene sentido si se explica en su contexto, de lo contrario es difícil que usted entienda nada.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything." Gregory turned to his mother. "Vocabulary and comprehension were never her strong suits." Violet rolled her eyes. "Every day I marvel that the two of you managed to reach adulthood." "Afraid we'd kill each other?" Gregory quipped. "No, that I'd do the job myself.

There," she said triumphantly. "Like that." He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. "Like what?" "That! What you just said." He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn't speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

And in that moment, she knew she loved him. With every thought, every emotion, every piece of her being, she loved him.

You sorts who excel at arithmetic simply don't understand how we lesser mortals can look at a page of numbers and not know the answer—or at least how to get to the answer—instantly.