Quotes About Comprehension

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

Una carta no dice lo que quiere decir sólo con lo que está escrito. Las cartas, como los libros, se leen también oliéndolas, tocándolas, manoseándolas.

Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanlar? kararl?l?kla anlamama, romanc?l?k ise anlama iÅŸidir.

Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.

una vez terminada la vida, ese viaje en coche de caballos en un solo sentido, no puedes volver a empezar de nuevo; pero si tienes un libro entre las manos, por confuso e incomprensible que sea, cuando lo terminas puedes, si quieres, volver al principio para leerlo otra vez y comprender lo incomprensible, para comprender la vida, ¿verdad, Fatma? 1980-1983

Another time he told me about two mountains—one of cork, the other of marble—which had spent thousands of years staring at each other without any mutual comprehension, and he concluded this tale by telling me about the verse in the Holy Koran which says to build your homes on high ground.

eu a amava como se reconhecesse em você meu próprio corpo, como se você fosse minha alma perdida, como se eu enfim compreendesse, tomado pela dor e a alegria, que eu era uma outro pessoa;

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

I speak to everyone in the language they understand, said Ender. That isn't being slick. It's being clear

Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.

We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.

It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

They aren't having a mental conversation between people with different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—" "You beat them.

Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

I want to understand everything, said Miro. I want to know everything and put it all together to see what it means. Excellent project, she said. It will look very good on your résumé.

Think like a machine instead of a boy.

Y todo se reduce a esto: en el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo. Y entonces, en ese preciso momento, cuando le quiero...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

You can't defeat a powerful enemy unless you understand him completely, and you can't understand him unless you know the desires of his heart, and you can't know the desires of his heart until you truly love him.

The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.