Quotes About Comprehension

I realize this now, but I didn't know it then." Of course, if it is in their heads now, so was it then. What they mean is that they only now accept the significance

The defense for too many details is simple: bring the context into conscious thought.

Often, knowing the language of a given prediction is more important than understanding exactly what a person says.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

It's a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don't seem as necessary

Those who cannot understand what they've read should probably reread it.

knowing is always better than not knowing. Keep

This is the reality of operating complex systems; no single person can see the whole system and understand how all the pieces fit together.

You know what your problem is?" Erik says, pointing a finger at John. "You never see the end-to-end business process, so I guarantee you that many of the controls you want to put in aren't even necessary.

In order to speak clearly, you need to be able to think clearly. And to think clearly, you usually need to be able to write it clearly.

The Joke is not a collection of words; it's the scene that appears in the listener's mind as a result of those words

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Even now, I tell myself, there is a language / to which I might speak and which / would rightly hear me...

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Sometimes english masters make you read poems chiz chiz chiz. You have to sa the weedy words and speke them beatifully as if you knew what they meant. Fotherington-tomas thinks this is absolutely super and when he sa he wander lonely as a cloud you think he will flote out of the window.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written

El hombre tenía tal entendimiento que ya casi no servía para nada.

Je mehr man in einer Sprache durch Vernunft unterscheiden lernt, desto schwerer wird einem das Sprechen derselben. Im Fertig-Sprechen ist viel Instinktmäßiges, durch Vernunft läßt es sich nicht erreichen.

Populairer Vortrag heißt heutzutage nur zu oft der, wodurch die Menge in den Stand gesetzt wird, von etwas zu sprechen, ohne es zu verstehen.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

But in the complicated parts of formal logic it is always one order of magnitude harder to tell what an object can do than to produce the object.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.