Quotes About Comprehension

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

What one fool can understand, another can.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Human beings understand too much.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

If you would judge, understand.

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

The problem with data is that it says a lot, but it also says nothing. 'Big data' is terrific, but it's usually thin. To understand why something is happening, we have to engage in both forensics and guess work.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.