Quotes About Comprehension

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Mis amigos son muy peculiares en cuestión de libros. Leen todos los best sellers que caen en sus manos, devorándolos lo más rápidamente posible…, y saltándose montones de párrafos según creo. Pero luego JAMAS releen nada, con lo que al cabo de un año no recuerdan ni una palabra de lo que leyeron.

When all is said and done, a single word, "understanding," is the beacon light of our studies —MARC BLOCH

The greater part of historical and natural phenomena are not simple, or not simple in the way we would like. —PRIMO LEVI

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Talvez não mais se chorasse numa sociedade em que só houvesse puras inteligências, mas provavelmente se risse; por outro lado, almas invariavelmente sensíveis, afinadas em uníssono com a vida, numa sociedade onde tudo se estendesse em ressonância afetiva, nem conheceriam nem compreenderiam o riso.

We have read as many texts as possible.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

Al no poder comprenderlos, los proyectamos. Sus efectos perturbadores son atribuidos a alguna voluntad maligna exterior a nosotros mismos, preferiblemente la del vecino.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Je comprends ce que j'aime, et ne comprends pas ce que je n'aime pas. Et, comme j'aime peu, au bout du compte je ne comprends pas grand'chose.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Even for a child, the major component of lipreading is guesswork. It's often said that only 30 to 40 percent of lipreading is actual "reading" of each word; the rest is "context guessing" to fill in the gaps between the words that are actually understood.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

can the need for philosophy be met by humans assisted by AIs, which interpret and thus understand the world differently?

We try to understand the pain of others but we can only understand it our way.

There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but more important!

As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole too vast for man to comprehend, so each individual bears within himself his own purpose, yet bears it ot serve a general purpose unfathomable to man.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.