Quotes About Comprehension

Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

Then he said if I ever want to see how something works, just look at it broken.

You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Study's good, because it microcosms everything—if you understand everything within the walls of what you study you can identify other walls too, other areas of study. Everything's separate and discrete and there is no macrocosm, really. When there are no walls there is no study, only chaos. And so you break it down.

Nosotros tenemos que darnos cuenta de que a nosotros tampoco.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

Un écrivain, même habile, n'empêche pas un bon lecteur de lire entre les lignes.

Nicht da ist man daheim, wo man seinen Wohnsitz hat, sondern wo man verstanden wird.

one who speaks my language without saying a word.

So you see, it doesn't terribly matter if you miss one item of knowledge in a series of similar items because providing you understand the series you already know without knowing that you know.

We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, we ask this feat of deaf children everyday.

She has never learnt to yawn And so she hasn't the smallest comprehension Of those who can.

We are literally Two Americas, remarkably out of touch with each other— the fortunate living the American Dream but lacking any practical comprehension of how the other half are suffering, month in and month out, unaware of the enervating toll of economic despair on the unfortunate half, many of whom just two or three years before had counted themselves among the fortunate.

My behavior makes perfect sense to me.

Non capivano che il segreto dell'orrore sta nel particolare. È molto facile, un gioco da bambini, pentirsi di gravi colpe: errori politici, adulterio, assassinio, antisemitismo. Ma chi perdona il particolare? Chi comprende i dettagli?

Yamamoto said he thought you had to be able to hear how something did not work as part of a bigger thing to hear how it did and it was precisely because people couldn't hear that that they were willing to let movements be taken out of pieces.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

N)ot everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.

Didn't she know that knowing why doesn't make things any less scary?

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.