Quotes About Comprehension

I felt like I almost understood. What was important and what was not. What was worth the time and effort and what was just a bunch of bullshit. And the more I looked at Eddie looking back at me, the more it was starting to make sense. Not all of it, but a little. Just a little, and at this point, that was all I needed.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

You see what you know!

Buying art is not understanding art.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.