Quotes About Comprehension

He understood all the words, he just had no clue what was going on. The Aunts said what they meant. Or at least they meant what they said.

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

Oh," said Wheaton. "Oh, I see. Yes, that does bring mathematics into it.

He always knew the answer, even when she thought he wasn't paying attention.

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—

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 quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

Children never do understand their own childishness.

Orson Scott Card

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Dimmi e dimenticherò. Mostrami e ricorderò. Coinvolgimi e capirò.

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.

Language is insight itself.

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

The Master said, "I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself.

Our own thesis was sketched in the Introduction: the classical written Chinese language—the language in which the Analects was composed—is unique, being sharply distinct not only from all non-Sinitic languages but from spoken Chinese as well (ancient and modern), and that the differences between the two Chinese languages are of greater linguistic and philosophical significance than has been generally noticed.