Quotes About Comprehension

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points

We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own language so that the implications, not just the words, come through clearly.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

I've always been able to put things in perspective.

If I'm going to talk about something, I need to be educated about it, and I need to have seen all the perspectives.

To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

Details create the big picture.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.