Quotes About Comprehension

Just as we are not all equally able to carry a tune or draw a straight line, many people simply cannot recognize the gaps in their own knowledge or understand their own inability to construct a logical argument. Education

Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is a not a parlor game played with factoids.

Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality.

Physical science has progressed by leaving the mind out of what it tries to explain, but there may be more to the world than can be understood by physical science.

The way the world is includes appearances, and there is no single point of view from which they can all be fully grasped!. An

Grosse plodders they were all, that had some learning and reading, but no wit to make use of it.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.

Religion, considered as a duty, is incumbent upon every living soul alike, and, therefore, must be on a level to the understanding and comprehension of all. Man does not learn religion as he learns the secrets and mysteries of a trade. He learns the theory of religion by reflection. It arises out of the action of his own mind upon the things which he sees, or upon what he may happen to hear or to read, and the practice joins itself thereto.

and it will always happen, that the nicest construction that words are capable of, when applied to the description of some thing which either cannot exist, or is too incomprehensible to be within the compass of discription, will be words of sound ony, and though they may amuse the ear, they cannot inform the mind

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

We all know more than we know we know.

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

Live people don't understand, do they?

de El Kybalión también, que afirma que «los labios de la Sabiduría permanecen cerrados, excepto para el oído capaz de comprender».

Los labios de la sabiduría permanecen cerrados excepto para el oído capaz de comprender.»

Os instrutores previnem constantemente os seus discípulos contra o erro de omitir o outro lado de cada questão.

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but the attitude reading and writing gives you

in vain forever to find what we've got. I don't know shit about anything, Jenna, and I might be inexperienced, but I know you'll never love anyone like you love me.

Grace is so simple to understand and yet so hard to grasp.

With women, you don't get to pick the meaning of what you mean. They do. All men understand this.

Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.