Quotes About Comprehension

S'il se vante, je l'abaisse; s'il s'abaisse, je le vante; et le contredis toujours, jusqu'à qu'il comprenne qu'il est un monstre incompréhensible.

As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to be known about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is much better to know something about everything than everything about something.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.

S'il se vante, je l'abaisse, S'il s'abaisse, je le vante; Et le contredis toujours, Jusqu'à ce qu'il comprenne Qu'il est un monstre incompréhensible.

The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former. And the world feels this and does so; for the world is often a good judge.

Voilà notre état véritable. C'est ce qui resserre nos connaissances en de certaines bornes que nous ne pas sons pas, incapables de savoir tout, et d'ignorer tout absolument.

It is better to know something about everything than to know everything about something.

Weltliche Dinge muß man erkennen, damit man sie lieben kann. Göttliche Dinge muß man lieben, damit man sie erkennen kann.

It is only by examining a book that we can ascertain what words it contains.

If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

You couldn't talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary.

and everything else. Right? They

Comprendió que el empeño de modelar la materia incoherente y vertiginosa de que se componen los sueños es el más arduo que puede acometer un varón

Ce n'est pas une explication. Je n'ai pas d'explication à donner. D'ailleurs, on n'explique rien avec des mots.

Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.

It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.

I know what you are, said his look. What were we, that they could know us so quickly and so well?

Cometer errores es natural, irse sin haberlos comprendido hace que se vuelva vano el sentido de una existencia. Las cosas que nos ocurren nunca son finalidades en sí mismas, gratuitas; cada encuentro, cada pequeño suceso encierra un significado, la comprensión de nosotros mismos nace de la disponibilidad para recibirlos, la capacidad de cambiar de dirección en cualquier momento, de dejar la vieja piel como las lagartijas al cambiar la estación.

That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends—know that...

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. —TRIBE UNKNOWN

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.