Quotes About Comprehension

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand

Das Einmaleins ist mir bis auf diese Stunde nicht geläufig.

Knowledge is the arrival (wusûl ) of the soul at the meaning (manâ) of a thing." Qinâlîzâdeh, who considers this the best definition known to him, explains that "when the arrival of the soul at the mean- ing of a thing comes, knowledge of that thing comes, in that the soul comes to it.

When we learn new words and ideas, and then begin to see them everywhere, the world is suddenly more legible and more vivid. Language reveals to us what was always there, but to what before we may have simply passed over, we now feel intimately connected.1 —Meara Sharma

As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.

Upton Sinclair dictum: it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Verstehe. Nach meiner Krankenschwester verging mir auch der Appetit.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths—they haven't any.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Far from it being true that man and his activity makes the world comprehensible, he is himself the most incomprehensible of all, and drives me relentlessly to the view of the accursedness of all being, a view manifested in so many painful signs in ancient and modern times. It is precisely man who drives me to the final despairing question: Why is there something? Why not nothing?

he had shown me how to do that maybe a dozen times before. But that was the time that it stuck

Dumb-bunnies think that if they don't understand the dharma or memorize it, then there's no benefit to even hearing it. They think that the best thing is to pursue knowledge and that if they forget what they've learned they might as well not have learned it at all.

What you get when you try to understand the meaning of life intellectually is just one tiny slice of life. Even if you understand that tiny slice very thoroughly, you still won't really have understood the fullness of life.

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.

it had never occurred to her that having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.

No estás de acuerdo con mi misión. Lo comprendo en la medida que es posible comprender a alguien con quien estoy completamente en desacuerdo.

Speak dumb person, please.