Quotes About Comprehension

How does anyone know anything about anything? I read it, of course!

They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.

except instead of the word "love" there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

they knew, from the prism of their experience

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

He [Platon Karataev] did not understand, and could not grasp the significance of words taken apart from the sentence. Every word and every action of his was the expression of a force uncomprehended by him, which was his life.

It is only a frivolous love that cannot survive intellectual definition; great love prospers with understanding.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.

Understandable, Lindsay.

Lincoln's) experience as a lawyer compelled him not only to see that there is a principle underlying every phenomenon in human affairs, but that there are always two sides to every question, both of which must be fully understood in order to understand either, and that it is of greater advantage to an advocate to appreciate the strength than the weakness of his antagonist's position.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even

history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.

As laughter is one way of appraising the serious, so the comic must be taken seriously if it is to be rated at its true value. No one understands a joke by laughing at it; he laughs at it because he understands it.

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

He understands muslin

God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover. But you understand me.

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

I do not understand you." "Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well." "Me? Yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." "Bravo! An excellent satire on modern language.