Quotes About Comprehension

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

Es nützt nichts, das Buch in der Mitte wegzuwerfen, nur weil man etwas nicht versteht!

Kun tiedämme, millaisesta tarinasta on kyse, tiedämme, mitä meidän tulee tarkkailla.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter F. Drucker

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

A person could skim all the books in a city library and still be more illiterate than a person who studies ten pages of a single good book letter by letter --- in other words, with real accuracy.

Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim, and have no objection to getting their names and pictures in the papers.

What he, the writer, is asking is impossible. Why should he expect this extraordinary being, the perfect critic (who does occasionally exist), why should there be anyone else who comprehends what he is trying to do? After all, there is only one person spinning that particular cocoon, only one person whose business it is to spin it.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

People are very determined to see only what they can explain.

If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Give me a user manual, and I'm happy for hours.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

I never really got that chance at Manchester City and developed into a utility player. Playing in all the positions has made me a better player because it's not easy to do that. Understanding the game has made me a more rounded player as well.