Quotes About Comprehension

Los límites de mi lenguaje representan los límites de mi mundo».

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else.

Creo que la claridad por escrito revela claridad de pensamiento».

Just Say Know

To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history.

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.

Moi, je voulais comprendre la guerre. Bien sûr, je voulais aussi la voir car je voulais la décrire, mais je me suis rendue compte que ceux qui me tiraient dessus depuis une rangée de palmiers, moi qui m'étais jeté la tête la première dans un fossé pour m'abriter, ces hommes étaient aussitôt devenus mes "ennemies". Mais étaient-ils mes "ennemis" ? Non. Si j'avais continué comme ça tout au long de la guerre, je ne l'aurais jamais comprise. (p. 120)

Thomas Kuhn, who once said that he came to realize that he did not understand a thinker until he could see the world through that thinker's eyes.

I was 15 when Chernobyl happened, I've been vaguely thinking about it for most of my life. But somewhere around 2015, it occurred to me that I didn't know how it happened, which seemed like a pretty bizarre lapse in my understanding of the world and how it functions.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

Lord Marshmoreton: I wish I could get you see my point of view. George Bevan: I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground

There are certain moments in life when words are not needed. I looked at Biffy, Biffy looked at me. A perfect understanding linked our two souls. ? !

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The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.