Quotes About Comprehension

Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered what happened outside us. Only much later I began to have some slight understanding of his cares and to be interested in them.

Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.

The fate of books depends on the understanding of those who read them.

Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this word?' he said, pointing to the "n' that signified the word "never." .... She wrote: t, I, c,g,n,o,a.

What is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones that this evening more clearly than ever she had told me she loves me.

Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But at the same time it is this arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous units which give rise to a large proportion of human error.

What is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me.

I don't understand," he said, understanding her.

The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life. And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations.

Often seeing the success she had with young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not love her.

I wish to understand in such a way that everything that is inexplicable shall present itself to me as being necessarily inexplicable, and not as being something I am under an arbitrary obligation to believe.

But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as someone has said, one gets to know all women better than if one knew thousands of them.

In everything near and comprehensible he had seen only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless. He

As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a part of a whole too immense for man to comprehend, so each individual has within himself his own aims and yet has them to serve a general purpose incomprehensible to man.

It most often happens that you argue hotly only because you can't understand what precisely your opponent wants to prove.

Beni tan?d???n? sand?. Oysa beni tan?yan herhangi bir kimsenin tan?d??? kadar az tan?yor beni o da.Kendim bile tan?m?yorum kendimi.Frans?zlar?n deid?i gibi, nelerden zevk ald???m?biliyorum, yaln?zca.

While Heisenberg had described the tusks and Schrodinger the trunk, the total elephant is so much more than its parts.

The Gospel is a fact; therefore tell it simply. The Gospel is a joyful fact; therefore tell it cheerfully. The Gospel is an entrusted fact; therefore tell it faithfully. The Gospel is a fact of infinite moment; therefore tell it earnestly. The Gospel is a fact of infinite love; therefore tell it feelingly. The Gospel is a fact of difficult comprehension to many; therefore tell it with illustration. The Gospel is a fact about a Person; therefore preach Christ. —ARCHIBALD BROWN

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.