Quotes About Comprehension

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

To know the world, one must construct it

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.