Quotes About Comprehension

Ha nem tudjuk kifejezni gondolatainkat és érzéseinket, akkor emberi mivoltunkat sem tudjuk egészében megélni. Ha nem hallhatjuk és láthatjuk embertársaink érzéseit és gondolatait, akkor soha nem fogjuk megérteni, mit jelent másvalakinek lenni.

Leadership and obedience are the two legs on which a warrior's life is balanced. Without both, victory cannot be achieved. Leadership depends on information and comprehension. Not so obedience. Sometimes a commander may choose to share details of his plan. Often he may not. In either case, obedience must be instant and complete. Such automatic response relies on trust between commander and those commanded. And that trust can only be obtained through leadership.

No, of course not,' he agreed in a tone that implied he'd heard both the words I'd said and the words I hadn't said and would be mulling them over later on his own.

If di-Master Strinni knew any sort of sign language, it would be the Human variety.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder

She heard it as though it were what language was made for

Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time.

I need to use everything—sound, image, performance—to get at the full meaning of the story

When I teach creative writing, I always speak about how you have to learn how to read your work." —Toni Morrison

Oh, sure. You have to know what's wrong before you can find what's right.

Philippians 4:7: "And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Peace protects you.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears—by listening to them. —DEAN RUSK

That's the trouble. It's really hard to understand if you haven't experienced it.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

I would like a dictionary though. A dictionary contains all the books ever written and all the books that will ever be written. That's something isn't it? The words aren't in the right order, of course, but it's still something.

If you are confused by the underlying principles of quantum technology – you get it!

The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.

We programmers are weird creatures. We love writing code. But when it comes to reading it we usually shy away. After all, writing code is so much more fun, and reading code is hard — sometimes almost impossible.

The word ?if? itself, though now used in the limited sense of memorizing, includes both understanding and practice. In fact there is no English word which can accurately reflect its true and full meaning.

The Qur'?n is not a parcel to be intellectually unwrapped, nor merely a beatitude to be ecstatically experienced. Do not approach the Qur'?n as a split person; leave neither intellect nor feeling behind you when you study it; let both come together.

Life is still an unfolding,the farther we travel the more truth we can comprehend, and to understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.