Quotes About Comprehension

The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might be applicable, and the artificial divisions seem to vanish.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly.

The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

I wish life was like banking,' I said. 'I don't mean it's straightforward. Some of it's incredibly complicated. But you can understand it in the end, if you try hard enough. Or there's someone, somewhere, who understands it, even if only afterwards, after it's too late. The trouble with life, it seems to me, is that it can turn out to be too late and you still haven't understood it.

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically self-evident.

Voleo bih da je život kao bankarstvo', rekao sam. 'Ne mislim doslovno. Ima tu vrlo komplikovanih stvari. Ali, na kraju sve shvatiš ako se samo potrudiš. Ili uvek postoji negde neko ko se razume, pa makar i naknadno, kad je ve? kasno. Nevolja sa životom, kako se meni ?ini, jeste da može ve? za sve da bude kasno, a da ti ipak i dalje ništa ne shvataš.

One of my sons writes books I can read, but cannot understand, and the other writes books I can understand, but cannot read.

An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed.

He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.

You cannot change what you cannot make sense of.

Wouldn't it be common sense to ask at once what I meant, without brooding over it?

Asakava, k?zlar? Yoko'yu dizine oturtmuÅŸ, resimli bir kitapta yaz?lanlar? okuyordu. O yaÅŸta bir bebeÄŸin, sözcüklerin ne anlama geldiÄŸini o anda anlamas? olas? deÄŸil ama zihninde yerleÅŸen sözcük say?s? ne kadar çok olursa, iki ya??na geldiÄŸi s?ralarda konuÅŸmaya baÅŸlad???nda, kullanabildiÄŸi sözcük say?s? ç?? gibi büyür.

Danach folgte eine Haarbürste. »Für Mädchen«, sagte er. »Pink mit Glitter.« »Du kennst mich so gut.«

He sighed impatently. 'You simplify everything, being without understanding. Your views are so limited it is impossible to explain to you.' 'Limited, yes,' I agreed. Yet not wholly without understanding. Our ways are not your ways.

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself to us as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of all true religiousness.

He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.

True listening means more than simply hearing the words that are spoken. We have to become alert to the underlying message too and hear what is not uttered aloud. Angry

Listening is more than just being quiet for a moment. It's not just the pause we were talking about earlier. Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions.

He can cook? In a manner of speaking, Mrs. Treadwell said, cheerfully. What manner of speaking is that?

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

So much talking makes it hard to listen.

She took a deep breath and asked, "I'm sorry, Captain. I'm feeling a bit discombobulated. Can you please start from the beginning and tell me what happened?

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.