Quotes About Comprehension

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Reading maketh a full man.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

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

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.