Quotes About Comprehension

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written

We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has.

like in the institutions, universities, active and responsively responding faculties should be developed in human brain to receive respective knowledge and reality of the world. Otherwise people do not understand what the speaker is saying.

Unless there is a suitable faulty developed in the audience's mind, the speaker will not be understood. So the teacher/speaker should not get irritated when her student/audience takes long time to understand or perceive reality.

Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own...Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.

The preference for Abel over Cain, like that of Jacob over Esau, is grounded in the mystery of election, a domain of divine activity that is closed off to full human comprehension.

Their goal is to deepen our comprehension of the discussions themselves instead of justifying particular views involved in current debates.

Insights shift us toward a new story, a new set of beliefs that are more accurate, more comprehensive, and more useful. Our insights transform us in several ways. They change how we understand, act, see, feel, and desire. They change how we understand.They transform our thinking; our new story gives us a different viewpoint. They change how we act.In some cases insights transform our abilities as well as our understanding

Animals often understand more of these matters than most people imagine.

But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals).

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

Bits of the World: gathering up bits of the world & setting them out in an order that her children can understand

One of the great joys of science is to understand something for the first time–to really understand, which is very different from, and far more satisfying than, knowing the facts.

Taming a dog is a child's play, as to an ignorant person.

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.