Quotes About Comprehension

Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

You must understand the nature of a thing before you can end its existence.

The things you don't know or realize are an ocean, and your mind is a tiny boat upon its waves

She knows our rates.

But freedom is a mere Idea, the objective reality of which can in no wise be shown according to the laws of nature, and consequently not in any possible experience; and for this reason it can never be comprehended or understood, because we cannot support it by any sort of example or analogy.

To think an object, then, is not the same as to know an object.

You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look--

There is also the evident dualism between those who know (the jargon, made of discourse etc.) and those who do not, who are not really using language but being used by it.

First he couldn't share their happiness, now he couldn't relate to their despair.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.

It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me.

There was something I tried to put in, Gottstein, but between my not knowing how to phrase it and Earth's reluctance to grasp my meaning, we ended up not communicating.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Antes de intentar una cura debemos averiguar en qué consiste la enfermedad.

All knowledge is one

Los matemáticos manejan grandes cantidades, pero nunca suyas…

You seek to trap me into an inconsistency. If you were an amoeba who could consider individuality only in connection with single cells and if you were to ask a sperm whale, made up of thirty quadrillion cells, whether it was one or many, how could the sperm whale answer in a way that would be comprehensible to the amoeba?

Pelorat sighed. "I will never understand people." "There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We're in no way different ourselves.

Reflexionó unos segundos, mirando a la mujer sentada frente a él y sintiendo que ella podía hacer su desierto menos parecido a un destierro. Se acordó de la otra mujer que trató unos años atrás, pero la borró de su mente con un esfuerzo deliberado. Si alguna vez encontraba otra compañera, tenía que ser una que conociera y comprendiera lo que era el saber, la erudición, y lo que todo ello exigía de una persona.

Podríamos haberle mostrado este… fallo parcial del plan antes y ahorrarle el impacto que siente en este momento, pero no habría comprendido su significado adecuadamente, como sucederá ahora.