Quotes About Comprehension

Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie)

have not the pleasure of understanding you

she read on; but every line proved

Well, I cannot understand it.' 'That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

though he admires Elinor's drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth.

Its effect was most extraordinary; for on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to utter a syllable. Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them. She began at length to recover, to fidget about in her chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.

What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?

eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to

total sense, but it was as

The lay reader, who knows only what the biographer tells him, reads it, as he reads every other biography, in a state of bovine equanimity.)

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

Without comprehending the role of identity, many issues we all face will remain unresolved.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

If they need my C.V., they don't know my work.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.