Quotes About Comprehension

No te hagas la que está durmiendo, recuerda de tu trovador; que yo ya comprendo... comprendo la humana ecuación de tu amor.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

The most amazing discovery in the world is someone who understands what you're about without your having to go through your entire life history to explain it.

a language that, all this time, we knew.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.

I think I'm able to explain things because understanding wasn't entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to see instantly I had to work to understand. I can remember what I had to do to figure it out. The very brilliant ones figure it out so fast they never see the mechanics of understanding.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is co-ordinated and used. Still, the amount of information to which we have accessed is one index of our intelligence.

The universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

El reduccionismo no parece conceder un respeto suficiente a la complejidad del universo. A algunos se les antoja como un híbrido curioso de arrogancia y pereza intelectual.

Çok bilmek, çok zeki olmakla eÅŸ deÄŸer deÄŸildir. Ak?l yaln?zca bilgi demek deÄŸildir, ayn? zamanda yarg?d?r da. BaÅŸka bir deyiÅŸle, bilgiler aras?nda baÄŸlant? kurup bunlar? kullanmakt?r.

Saber muito não lhe torna inteligente. A inteligência se traduz na forma que você recolhe, julga, maneja e, sobretudo, onde e como aplica esta informação.

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

Just because knowledge exists, doesn't mean people know how to use it .

There is nothing that exists that has only one side, even a piece of paper thin as it is has two sides.

I used to lie on his bed for an hour before bedtime or on a Saturday afternoon and read to him and then when he graduated to books with chapters sometimes he read. I'd look over at him, at his entire body, which appeared to have grown in the last few minutes; his lips moved and his eyes danced and darted across the page and I'd think: my son can read; he can comprehend things, he is making discoveries and he will soon have even more opinions about the world.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.