Quotes About Comprehension

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

Words of wisdom are easier said when shown, otherwise, they are incomprehensible.

If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.

Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does.

I understand your actions more than your conversations.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Reading musses up my mind.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

A person hears only what they understand.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.