Quotes About Comprehension

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

It occurs to me that there are some happenings for which the proper response is not comprehension at all, but amazement and acceptance.

A strange idea that one must say what one thinks in order to be understood.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.

It's hard to get in the head of somebody. The closest we can get is through the words they've left behind, either their contemporary correspondence or after-the-fact memoirs.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

Deep learning is a really powerful metaphor for learning about the world.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Making sense of a political moment when you're in the midst of it is difficult: even if you avoid commercial and personal conflicts, it can still be hard to see it and understand it.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

The only way to understand fully is to become the object of our understanding.

When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. The word comprehend is made up of the Latin roots cum, which means with, and prehendere, which means to grasp it or pick it up. There is no other way to understand something.