Quotes About Comprehension

What you theoretically know, vividly realize.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.

According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip, it has always been the words themselves that I wanted to understand.

He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.