Quotes About Comprehension

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

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

For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

Science is a quest for understanding.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

I think only a woman understands another woman's body.