Quotes About Comprehension

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them.

In one span of life they lived the whole life of humanity

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be!

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

Long story,' I said. 'Ah,' the barman said, like he understood everything there was to know about me, 'we've all got one of those,

His accent needs subtitles.

The more you know, the less you understand.

Paul thought of how they'd kept delaying buying plane tickets to visit his parents in Taiwan - in December, which was next month, he knew - as if in tacit understanding that their relationship wouldn't last that long. Paul felt himself trying to interpret the situation, as if there was a problem to be solved, but there didn't seem to be anything, or maybe there was, but he was three or four skill sets away from comprehension, like an amoeba trying to create a personal webpage using CSS.

Comprendre n'est pas justifier, l'empathie autorise cette distinction et l'intelligence permet, par la compréhension, d'adopter une position critique nous permettant de chercher des solutions.

We are always making assumptions about wholes based on knowing only parts.