Quotes About Comprehension

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Lord, I do not attempt to comprehend Your sublimity, because my intellect is not at all equal to such a task. But I yearn to understand some measure of Your truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand in order to believe but I believe in order to understand. For I believe even this: that I shall not understand unless I believe.3

Thomas loved words, particularly if he didn't understand them.

Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre

One of the pleasures of dealing with intelligent men, Lin Fong decided, watching seven people ride out the eastern gate in early-morning sunlight, was how much did not have to be spoken.

durent se faire expliquer la situation en un langage qu'ils pouvaient comprendre. Il était possible, bien sûr, de simplement leur donner des ordres sans rien expliquer, mais Shirvan régnait depuis longtemps et savait que la plupart des gens sont plus efficaces quand ils saisissent eux-mêmes de quoi il s'agit. Il

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Physical laws provided a trivial explanation for their shrinking. On second thought the connection between shrinking and loss of meaning was not so obvious. Why should it be that as things become small they also become incomprehensible?

information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.

Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers' comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to underestimate the imbecility of certain individuals on occasions like these.

As soon as I got hold of the teats I could see

You always hear the saying walk a mile in someones shoes instead of walking a mile in their shoes,, live a day in their head and maybe will understand them better,, because walking in someone elses shoes gives u no idea what they are dealing with but living a day in their head you might... Food for thought

Friends... Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.

I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand their reason for causing me pain. But just understanding does not chase away the hurt.

It scares you that somebody understands just how lonely and frightened you feel.

Have read little and understood less.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

Does nobody understand?

Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.

Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world?