Quotes About Comprehension

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

Thus does the beginner, who has acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own hereditary tongue.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Some examples for you: 'Mi wantem' is 'I would like'. 'Mi wantem' sounds like 'Me want them', which equals 'I would like'. 'Bitwin' is 'between'. 'Bisnis' is 'business'. By now you've probably got the hang of it, so I don't have to tell you what 'Gud moning' means. If you're still struggling you're a 'dik ed'.

I was still getting my head round the fact that carrot juice existed

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

No man is the wiser for his learning

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.