Quotes About Comprehension

Readers need to understand programs in detail and in concept. Sometimes they move from detail to concept, sometimes from concept to detail.

Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.

If, for instance, I determine the weight of each stone in a bed of pebbles and get an average weight of five ounces, this tells me very little about the real nature of the pebbles.

One can explain and know only if one has reduced intuitions to an exact knowledge of facts and their logical connections.

Language must be taken in a wider sense than speech, for speech is only the outward flow of thoughts formulated for communication

Cody nodded, then said, "Hmmm," so Larry would know he was listening.

Okay . . . Joe quickly figured

Collecting information is easy. Reviewing and applying information is hard.

One can speak without understanding. What

I could tell you many things; you will listen to none of them. And if you listen t any of them, you will do so in your own way.

The task of a craftsman, they conclude, "is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.

you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

Forse un giorno si arriverà ad essere tutti sereni, e non capiremo più tante cose perché capiremo tutto.

But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.

At times I think I can hear my brain screaming, "I am reading here, so please, all other body parts, do your best to keep up!

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

people who don't hear you don't hear you.