Quotes About Comprehension

The rest of them were pretty sure they understood things, and that made them bad listeners.

If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Marking and underscoring a book makes it more interesting, and far easier to review rapidly.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

It's a bit o' real lace, ses the gal, twisting her 'ead round to look at the collar; it cost me one and two-three only last night. One an' wot? ses Charlie, who, not being a married man, didn't understand 'er. One shilling, ses the gal, two pennies, and three farthings. D'ye understand that?

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?

Some are baffled, but that one is not--that one knows me. Ah lover and perfect equal, I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections.

Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does.

I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me? I follow you whoever you are from the present hour, My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Languages are not strangers to on another.

The illiterate of the future', it has been said, 'will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph'. But must we not also count as illiterate the photographer who cannot read his own pictures? Will not the caption become the most important component of the shot?

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.

Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.

Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.

intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Every part will be drawn, using all means of demonstrations, from three different points of view; for when you have seen a limb from the front, with any muscles, sinews, or veins which take their rise from the opposite side, the same limb will be shown to you in a side view or from behind, exactly as if you had that same limb in your hand and were turning it from side to side until you had acquired a full comprehension of all you wished to know.

It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival whether he understood the theory, Weissmann gave a delightful reply. During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.

If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.

Anything one man does that another man understands can be defined as language