Quotes About Comprehension

The more you know the more unhappy you are

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text

Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian's ease of manner and flow of ideas.

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book.

I don't understand you.

Avete ragione che Millie non è facile a conoscere. Uno la vede, con intensità: la vede più di quanto non veda nessun altro; ma poi scopre che ciò non significa conoscerla, e che si può conoscere meglio una persona che non si riesca, diciamo, a vedere neppure appena la metà.

If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.

Don't you know ? How should I, my dear—in the absence of everything?

Whether or no he had a grand idea of the lucid, he held that nothing ever was in fact—for any one else—explained.

As she was condemned to know more and more, how could it logically stop before she should know Most?

Men can know the nature of things

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Au fond, les gens ne lisent pas ; ou, s'ils lisent, ils ne comprennent pas ; ou, s'ils comprennent, ils oublient.

Devia ter sido um palhaço. Isso ter-me-ia proporcionado o mais vasto campo de expressão. Mas subestimava a profissão. Se me tivesse tornado palhaço, ou até actor de vaudeville, teria sido famoso. As pessoas não me teriam compreendido, mas teriam compreendido que eu não era para ser compreendido. Isso pelo menos teria sido um alívio.

Contemplando el pasado, parece que siempre leí en posición incómoda. (Que es la forma en que escriben la mayoría de los escritores, según compruebo). Pero lo leído penetró. Lo importante es, y debo recalcarlo, que leía sin desviar la atención con todas mis facultades que poseía.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

There is no use in lecturing unless a class is listening. And they will only listen if you are saying something they think they can understand and seems relevant. If you pace up and down you can tell from their moving head whether they are following you.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion.

Science is organized knowledge.

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.