Quotes About Comprehension

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!

All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way.

There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words.

They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.

logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

That was great, al' that reading' ye did!' said Rob Anybody. 'I didnae understand a single word o' it!' 'Aye, it must be powerful language if you cannae make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!' said another pictsie.

You see, it's not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.

His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.

Listen very carefully... listen to everyone and don't say much and think about what they say and how they say it and watch their eyes... it becomes like a big jigsaw, but you're the only one who can see all the pieces. You'll know what they want you to know, and what they don't want you to know, and even what they think no one knows.

He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them means," people said, but not when he was within hearing.

Ach, noo yer talkin' oour language," said Rob Anybody. "Not…quite," said Tiffany.

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, said Mudge. Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due—that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped privilege—many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.

Why, you poor things—didn't you know? Knowledge and understanding aren't props for one another. Knowledge is a pile of bricks, and understanding is a way of building. Build for me!

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Cats can't understand English, so you tell a cat, 'Come on. Jump on the bed,' and he just looks at you like, 'What are you talking about?'

In general, men are just kind of slow and dumb. We just figure things out later.