Quotes About Comprehension

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

If the student sitting in a class is unable to understand anything day in and day out, then that has a serious and long-term psychological impact on his/her life.

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.