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Quotes About Comprehension

This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
~ Goldoni
The key question I learned to ask myself when I read was, "What is the author trying to say?
~ Gordon MacDonald
He's trying to speak, I do believe, Beth announced. At this moment speech came to White Fang, rushing up in a great burst of barking. Something has happened to Weedon, His wife said decisively.
~ Jack London
mas o branco fala verdade de formas diferentes. Hoje fala verdade, amanhã fala verdade de outra maneira e não há como compreendê-lo nem se entende o seu modo de ser.
~ Jack London
Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.
~ Jack London
You must come to read the face of life with understanding.
~ Jack London
Informing you is a pleasure, since you are quick to learn.
~ Jack Vance
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
~ Jacqueline Carey
As much as I might wish for a reason I could understand, in my heart, and not only in the dark intuitive part of me that shuddered away from such comprehension, it would never come.
~ Jacqueline Carey
In all your getting, get understanding.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
ELLE NE PARLE PAS L'INNOMMÉE OR TU L'ENTENDS MIEUX QUE MOI AVANT MOI EN CE MOMENT MÊME
~ Jacques Derrida
Que la vida iba en serio uno lo empieza a comprender más tarde
~ Jaime Gil de Biedma
seem to understand. With three walled
~ James A. Michener
Nothing is mine to claim or to command, But all is mine to know and understand.
~ James Allen
Ultimately, mastery is about connecting the dots of many fields.
~ James Altucher
And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him today something that he must remember and understand tomorrow
~ James Baldwin
White America remains unable to believe that black America's grievances are real; they are unable to believe this because they cannot face what this fact says about themselves and their country; and the effect of this massive and hostile incomprehension is to increase the danger in which all black people live here, especially the young.
~ James Baldwin
If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room.
~ James Gleick
With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will - the coders will get that - for this new information, because I didn't have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.
~ Justine Bateman
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
~ Marvin Hamlisch
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
~ Henry Adams
War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
~ Carlos Saavedra Lamas
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~ Frank Herbert