Quotes About Comprehension

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth.

Tell me, sir, do you know of any banker that really understands his business? Some modern Fugger?' 'Oh, Stephen, if you please,' cried Jack.

Gómez de la Serna illustrates this with a dialogue between a critic and a sage: Critic: It is true that these pictures do not displease my eye; but since I do not understand them, I cannot like them. Sage: What did you have for lunch? Critic: Oysters. Sage: Do you like oysters? Critic: Passionately. Sage: Do you understand oysters?

And yet always you feel as though you understood perfectly the people and why they do everything as they do.Still you are absolutely severed from them.

Every man's conception of God is a measure of his own stature. He pictures God according to his comprehension, and thus it is natural that every man has a different notion of God, every one's God being characteristic of his mental and moral caliber.

learn to program by looking at good programs — not just at what they do, but at the source code.

looking at things from other people's point of view is practically the secret of success.

Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.

Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So

In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some and here it is; read it, absorb it, and forget it.

Nobody knows something about everything.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm.

El sabio es sabio porque ama. El loco es loco porque piensa que puede entender el amor.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them…

If I can understand what's going on in the world, I can understand what's going on inside myself

I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.

They thought, for example, that I really ought to know the name Intel because "it's written on every computer." I, of course, had never noticed.

Las personas luchan para salir, no para entrar en coma. Las personas luchan para vivir y no para cometer suicidio... Que es un loco?... La locura es la incapacidad de comunicar las propias ideas...Todos nosotros de una forma u otra, somos locos. Pero la gran locura del hombre y de la mujer es exactamente esta: el amor.