Quotes About Comprehension

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

Man knows much more than he understands.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart's content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.

Reader, if you don't know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account.

No linear indexing system is adequate to express the multi-dimensionality of knowledge," Dr. Waterhouse reminds him.

Now this was like trying to comprehend all the activity of an anthill, and read all the words in a book, and feel all the splendor of a cathedral, in one glance. Jack's mind was not equal to the demands that Cairo placed on it, and so for a long while he fixed his attention on small and near matters, as if he were a boy peering through a hollow reed.

Sergeant Major," Arjun said quietly, "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Yur snorted. "Is that a fancy way of saying it's above my pay grade, sir?

When you say 'plugged it in,' could you please tell me everything you plugged into it?" Peter had now dropped, improbably, into a polite, clinical mode, like a customer service rep in a Bangalore cubicle farm.

The ability of our consciousness to see—not just as a speelycaptor sees (by taking in and recording givens) but identifying things—copper bowls, melodies, faces, beauty, ideas—and making these things available to cognition—that ability, Atamant said, is the ultimate basis of all rational thought.

My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to

Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated—the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything that leaves an imprint on the modern mind." "Like instructions for programming a VCR.