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Quotes About Comprehension

As long as you're Unaware, you lead a miserable life. The moment you're aware of all that is happening around you, You have arrived Home; it is only then that you relish what life brings in; but if you're unaware, even the greatest moments bring despair.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Misunderstanding is understanding in your own way than what IS!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
It is not literally true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Most people will not see what is in a picture, or will see it through the most readily available visual cliches. It takes training and an analytical vocabulary to talk about what is in a picture, and to know what to look for. A picture is worth a thousand words only for those who already have internalized an adequate vocabulary.
~ Randall Collins
Wisdom, said William James, Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise If that is wisdom.
~ Randall Jarrell
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
~ Randall Terry
If we really understand the problem, the solution will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. Krishnamurti
~ Randy Fujishin
The definition of a good game is therefore "one that teaches everything it has to offer before the player stops playing.
~ Raph Koster
You cannot figure out crazy. Just keep smiling and nodding.
~ Ray Garton
The ordinary is immune to understanding because it cannot be placed outside human experience for examination.
~ Ray Grigg
If the mind were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it.
~ Ray Kurzweil
If understanding language and other phenomena through statistical analysis does not count as true understanding, then humans have no understanding either.
~ Ray Kurzweil
The enchantment of intelligence seems to be reduced to "nothing" when we fully understand its methods. The mystery that is left is the intrigue inspired by the remaining, not as yet understood methods of intelligence.
~ Ray Kurzweil
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. —John von Neumann
~ Ray Kurzweil
One must see everything.
~ Raymond Queneau
A friend understands what you're going through enough and can help you through it. A best friend Understands what you're going through too much and ,frankly, it's giving them a headache.
~ Rebecca Brown
Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.
~ Max Riemelt
We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
~ Penny Marshall
I am not good at making people understand certain things.
~ Gennaro Gattuso
One of my biggest peeves is when the writer hasn't given you enough information to figure everything out. You should be able to go back to the beginning of 'Gone Girl,' after you've already read it and you know everything, and say, 'Check - check - yes, she gave us that information.'
~ Gillian Flynn
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
~ Daniel Kahneman
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
~ Ryan Lochte