Quotes About Comprehension

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally

The trick was not simply to write the code that turned information into pictures but to find the best pictures to draw—shapes and colors that led the mind to meaning.

I wonder," James wrote, "if we haven't become so numbed by all these numbers that we are no longer capable of truly assimilating any knowledge which might result from them.

There was so much confusion about the different terms," said Charlie. "In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there's a reason why it doesn't quite make sense to us. It's because it doesn't quite make sense." The

Steve's fun to take to any Wall Street meeting," said Vinny. "Because he'll say 'explain that to me' thirty different times. Or 'could you explain that more, in English?' Because once you do that, there's a few things you learn. For a start, you figure out if they even know what they're talking about. And a lot of times they don't!

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That was his intellectual instinct, his natural first step to the mental hoop: to take whatever someone had just said to him and try not to tear it down but to make sense of it.

Serwde only half understood what Corum was saying, but he listened politely until Corum stopped

We are not just passive receptors sponging up a flow of images and information. Perception involves organizing stimuli and data into comprehensible units. In a word, perception is itself an act of selective editing.

I regard knowing as an active comprehension of the things known, an action that requires skill. Skilful knowing and doing is performed by subordinating a set of particulars, as clues or tools, to the shaping of a skilful achievement, whether practical or theoretical. We may then be said to become 'subsidiarily aware' of these particulars within our 'focal awareness' of the coherent entity that we achieve.

That is the problem with you whites. You always want to know everything. We just experience it.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

I think there's a difference between internal confidence and situational confidence and understanding.

The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I listen to the whole thing and it may be five or six days before I even realize what the song's about.

There is no more important foundational skill than reading.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.