Quotes About Comprehension

Ye spend all your days contriving forms and rules for the principles of your Faith, while that which profiteth you in all this is to comprehend the good-pleasure of your Lord and unitedly to become well-acquainted with His supreme Purpose.

You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?

YOU'VE GOT TO DIG IT TO DIG IT, YOU DIG? ... ~ Thelonious Monk

Une philosophie transformée devrait casser cette prétention, ne plus faire croire à elle-même et aux autres qu'elle dispose de l'infini. Mais au lieu de cela c'est elle qui, subtilement comprise deviendrait infinie dans la mesure où elle dédaignerait de se fixer dans un corpus de théorèmes dénombrables.

DIANA: Well, how was I supposed to know that? MARY: Maybe because we mentioned it over and over again? DIANA: You're assuming that I listen.

i am part of everything that i have read

Why do you talk all the time?" I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully. "I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, "so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Clarity is the ability of the process to be communicated and understood by the people.

given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

Love follows knowledge.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at).

So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.

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

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

If I didn't understand a cartoon in a newspaper, I'd just turn the page.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.