Quotes About Comprehension

B]y observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether... [like] when [people] watch and study an eclipse of the sun; they really do sometimes injure their eyes, unless they study its reflection in water or some other medium.

The View is the comprehension of the naked awareness, within which everything is contained: sensory perception and phenomenal existence, samsara and nirvana. This awareness has two aspects: 'emptiness' as the absolute, and appearances or perception as the relative.

If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.

The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes.

Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

God, whose knowledge is simply manifold, and uniform in its variety, comprehends all incomprehensibles with so incomprehensible a comprehension, that though He willed always to make His later works novel and unlike what went before them, He could not produce them without order and foresight, nor conceive them suddenly, but by His eternal foreknowledge.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another?

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

Truth is too multi-faceted to be contained in a five-line summary.

In every house of marriagethere's room for an interpreter.

En la vida, los destinos están casi siempre separados: quienes comprenden no son los ejecutores, y quienes actúan no comprenden.

Sana bunu anlatmak istedim, çünkü senin, beni hiç tan?mayan senin, bir yaÅŸam?n nas?l sana baÄŸland???n? ve kaybolduÄŸunu nihayet kavramaya baÅŸlaman? istedim.

Çok soran insan çok ÅŸeyi anlayabilir ancak. Yaln?zca çok ÅŸeyi anlayan biri adil bir insan olabilir.

To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your memory.

Nur wer früh seine Seele weit auszuspannen gelernt, vermag später die ganze Welt in sich zu fassen.

Dass man gerade die wichtigsten Empfindungen erst versteht, sobald man sie selbst durchlitten hat.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists call a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Bei der Beschäftigung mit Geschichte ist Langsamkeit ein Vorzug. Der Forscher verzögert die rasenden Vorgänge von damals, bis sein Verstand sie fassen kann. Dann aber weist er dem schnellsten König nach, wie er im Gefecht hätte handeln sollen.

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.