Quotes About Comprehension

Another point miscomprehended by people who are clumsy at languages is that one does not need to learn a whole language in order to understand some one or some dozen poems. It is often enough to understand throroughly the poem, and every one of the few dozen of few hundred words that compose it.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

Things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To/ know what precedes and what follows will assist yr/ comprehension of process.

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro. (Diccionario de las artes)

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation—the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.

La mujer no ha nacido para que se le comprenda, sino para que se le ame.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Si me entienden? ¿O estoy tan viejo que ya no me entienden?

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

From time to time, her dialogue will be rendered in ordinary English, which Louise does not speak. To do full justice to her speech would require a ladder of footnotes and glosses, a tic of apostrophes (aphaeresis, hyphaeresis, apocope), and a Louise-ese/English dictionary of phonetic spellings.

Si vous faîtes attention aux signes, quand donc ferez vous attention à ce qu'ils signifient? If you pay attention to the signs, but when will you pay attention to what they signify?

I never understood the meaning of a film. I am very concrete. I only understand what is on the screen. In my whole life, I have never understood a single symbol.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

que dit le professeur, ils comprennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont écouté, ils retiennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont compris, et ils se servent de la moitié de ce qu'ils ont retenu, c'est-à-dire pas grand-chose, à la fin.

Ce n'est pas la peine d'avoir du talent à la cinquième ligne si le lecteur ne dépasse pas la troisième.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

This integrated approach to painting, philosophy, and science lay at the heart of Leonardo's project. And yet we find it easier to simply marvel at the work of "his hand" than to understand this work as the lost way of comprehending the world that it in fact is.

And you're the only one who knows.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.