Quotes About Comprehension

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

I have the natural ability to pick things up a lot faster than I think most people would.

The more she knew, the worse she'd worry.

At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history

You just totally missed the metaphor. I could never love someone who missed the metaphor.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.

A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.

Talking with her is always...' Different? suggested Saphira. 'Exactly.

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

What he wanted was both simple and complex: he wanted Galbatorix to understand ...

I'm not sure you would understand." The elf folded his hands in his lap. "I might not; that is true. But then, you cannot know for certain unless you try to explain.

Ia tersadar bahwa hal yang dianggapnya luas ternyata hanya sebagian kecil dari sesuatu yang lebih luas lagi

intelligence is a combination of mental ability and the accumulated knowledge that arises from that ability.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produces no concept; therefore, it is dumb.

Todo concepto filosófico, tomado en su sentido más genérico, explica cualquier cosa.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequentur. grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Every text, after all, is a lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work. What a problem it would be if a text were to say everything the receiver is to understand - it would never end.

Here, then, is another proposition: The medium is not the message; the message becomes what the receiver makes of it, applying to it his own codes of reception, which are neither those of the sender nor those of the scholar of communications.

Um Humanwissenschaften zu betreiben, genügt es nicht, Kriminalromane zu lesen, als ob sie Parmenides wären, man muß auch Parmenides lesen, als ob er ein Kriminalroman wäre.