Quotes About Comprehension

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I perceive your tongue is," returned madame; "and what the tongue is, I suppose the man is.

Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog." "And you," returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, "are such a sensitive and poetical spirit—

No one can understand him better than I do. The greatest wisdom that ever lived in the world could scarcely know Richard better than my love does.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.

The trick is to relate the unknown to the known. To explain density, McPhee makes references to lead and footballs. To describe radioactivity, he reassures us that we can hold on our laps, without any danger, the same amount of U-235 that comprised the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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

Una vez más comprendí lo que Pablo quiere decir por esa paz que sobrepasa todo entendimiento.

Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things.

Polanyi argued that we only truly know something—that is, have personal knowledge of it—when we can apply it to get results.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.

It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs — they always take them literally.

He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

He turned back to face them. 'I do make sense to you, don't I? I'm not just imagining that communication is taking place?

Don't underestimate the need to appeal to people's imaginations. Maybe you can see all the consequences of your work, already. Other people might need to have them spelled out explicitly." Maria

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees.

Understanding is the essence of enlightenment. -Harrar

She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn't remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life.

Tutorials frustrate competent practitioners because they move too slowly and say things that are obvious (though they are anything but obvious to novices). Equally, manuals frustrate novices because they use jargon and don't explain things. This phenomenon is called the expertise reversal effect

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Double description is better than one.