Quotes About Comprehension

Instantly I comprehended the truth of these thoughts. Reality is the present. Dwelling in the past or future causes pain and illness. Patience can stop time. God's love is everything.

Accuracy and diligence are much more necessary to a Lawyer, than great comprehension of mind, or brilliancy of talents," Daniel Webster argued, for the lawyer's "business is to refine, define, and split hairs…. A man can never gallop over the fields of Law on Pegasus, nor fly across them on the wing of oratory. If he would stand on terra firma he must descend."25

Se q hay un motivo para todo. Tal vez en el momento en q se produce un hecho no contamos con la penetración psicológica ni la previsión necesarias para comprender las razones, pero con el tiempo y paciencia saldrán a la luz

Maybe I just need to try harder to understand the way she sees things.

The final goal of which an ethnographer should never lose sight…is, briefly, to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world

Sentences that bring ideas and images into clearer focus by adding more useful details and explanation are generally more effective than those that are less clearly focused and that offer fewer details.

The brain is a meaning-making machine, always trying to make sense of the world.

We are not the same musicians, mentally nor the same human beings, and not being the same, it is very difficult to read an old music treatise in its proper meaning and context. The solution, of course, is to read less about music and more about context.1

It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits.

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

The six principle steps of teaching. Motivation of the trainee Maintaining their complete attention Promoting mental activity (thinking) — discussion, question, lecture Creating a clear picture of material to be learned; outlining the material Developing comprehension of the significance, the implications, and the practical application of the material being presented (clear goals) Repetition of the five preceding steps until learning has taken place

Pre-existing knowledge is what allows students to think.

It's not that math can solve the world's problems. It's just that the world's problems would be easier to solve if everyone just knew a little bit more math.

If you do not grasp the difference between orange juice and detergent, brand names will at best help you drink the finest detergent on the market, and wash your dishes with the right amount of pulp.

though it's dreadfully ugly to the ear and why if you think hard about it, "Keep your personal belongings in visual contact at all times" is actually likely to be understood by a smaller percentage of people than, "Please keep an eye on your stuff at all times."   Nevertheless, there are imperatives behind using the language that way. And some of it is to be antihuman.

If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep. I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none?

I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look." "Upon my soul, he's been studying Murray's Grammar!

True, both his eyes, in themselves, must simultaneously act; but is his brain so much more comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man's, that he can at the same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction? If he can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct problems in Euclid.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

Kill?' I realized I could never properly explain that word to this creature toiling here in its garden. Had it ever eaten meat? Could it conjugate the verb 'hunt?

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action. Olivier frowned. So? Dear boy, I must tell you a secret. What? I do believe it is wrong.