Quotes About Comprehension

The guttural eruptions and long flowing vowels rolled just beneath my comprehension like a beautiful brook. I gazed into this brook for long spells of time. It was not wide, just one man's voice, but it was as deep as the universe.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing.   Let us prescribe for you.

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

nessuno come un cane sa apprezzare la straordinarietà della tua conversazione.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

So sorry," she bit out with the sweetness of alum, "but you're going to have to translate that one for me. I'm not fluent in brooding male grunting.

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

application of force. How much else have I not registered? Her prosody

cannot recognize attitudes and beliefs

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

She had pacified life so well, taken such care for it not to explode. She had kept it all in serene comprehension, separated each person from the rest, clothes were clearly made to be worn and you could choose the evening movie from the newspaper—everything wrought in such a way that one day followed another.

Anyone who lives knows even without knowing that he or she knows. So dear reader,you know more than imagine however much you may deny it.

Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.

I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is.

Nunca saberei entender mas há de haver quem entenda. E é em mim que tenho de criar esse alguém que entenderá.