Quotes About Comprehension

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

many people are good at talking and bad at understanding

I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity. In fact, however acute our intellects may be, they will no more be able to attain to a comprehension of this than to an understanding of God; for, as He Himself says, He created us in His image and likeness.

A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

Instead of complaining about your differences, begin to discover and confess your agreement: "In Jesus' name, I understand how my pastor thinks and I flow with him in the spirit of understanding.