Quotes About Comprehension

A solução para esse absurdo que se chama "eu existo", a solução é amar um outro ser que, este, nós compreendemos que exista.

Não quero ter a terrível limitação de quem vive apenas do que é passível de fazer sentido.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no-one understands you. —CHARLES CHAPLIN TO ALBERT EINSTEIN AT THE 1931 PREMIERE OF CITY LIGHTS

Tacitus, "qui abrégeoit tout parce qu'il voyoit tout." ("He abridged everything because he saw everything." Perfect.)

He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know.

Not comprehending, they hear like the deaf. The saying is their witness: absent while present.

Çok ÅŸey bilmek kavramay? öÄŸretmez.

Students don't learn by being lectured at; then learn by thinking hard, solving problems and dissecting proofs.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

The world of immediate experience?the world in which we find ourselves living?must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Het is beter om de dingen niet te weten zonder dat je ze kent.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.

Not a word, not a word of love, Prehaps, she thought, he does not love in the ordinary way. God loves us, after all, He manifests it in cancer, cholera, Siamese twins. Not all forms of love are comprehensible, and some forms of love destroy what they touch.

You know what you meant. I only know what you said.

I am always translating, he thinks: if not language to language, then person to person.