Quotes About Comprehension

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. a perfect setup, for 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are God. a dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat, and many times, neither can I.

Bless what you receive; bless what you send out. God's plenteous substance moves in and through our mind constantly like a light shining in the darkness, but we do not comprehend it.

had that to understand each other by, though otherwise they could not have been more alien to each other. In short

To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don't know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up. For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari.

the verses that follow appear to stress the mental deficiency of the darkness: its unwillingness to believe and therefore its inability to comprehend. Then, as the story of Jesus unfolds, John will show that truth is nonsense to a mind darkened by sin (8:

In Cantor's mind there were an infinite number of infinities-the transfinite numbers-each nested in the other. Aleph 0 is smaller than Aleph 1, which is smaller than Aleph 2, which is smaller than Aleph 3, and so forth. At the top of the chain sits the ultimate infinity that engulfs all other infinities: God, the infinity that defies all comprehension.

Eternal torture is nowhere suggested in the Old Testament Scriptures, and only a few statements in the New Testament can be so misconstrued as to appear to teach it; and these are found either among the symbolisms of Revelation, or among the parables and dark sayings of our Lord, which were not understood by the people who heard them (Luke 8:10) and which seem to be but little better comprehended today. [...]

But I couldn't hear what he was saying.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

words are just words. Some are better than others, but only because they are better at explaining what you mean.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.

The more people who see a film, the more life it has. But I don't like when people watch DVDs and look at two scenes, but they don't look at the whole movie. Or they sit and talk to each other. You should always watch a movie all the way through.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

the diagram "is to affect thro' the Eyes what we may fail to convey to the brains of the public through their word-proof eyes.

Menjadi rasional tidaklah sama dengan menjadi sangat cerdas secara intelektual.

Tom said nothing, uneasily aware that there might be something in what Simon said, after all.