Quotes About Comprehension

Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about them.

After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.

Mrkgnao! the cat cried. They call them stupid. They understand what we say better than we understand them. She understands all she wants to. Vindictive too. Cruel. Her nature.

Our end is the acquisition of knowledge.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

And by the way, you clearly don't know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

Is that clear? said Borcht as clear as pea soup I said

But I was definitely starting to see where his nickname came from.

Let's try that again," he said. "This is my seat. Understand?

Better readers are better thinkers.

if I did. Bear's not exactly a good listener. "Uh-huh," he said.

Very badly. Julie finally understood how

and the gradual realization that he was

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.