Quotes About Comprehension

Know it from root to fruit

Know from root to fruit

No one else can understand you better than you yourself.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

To think outside the box, first you need to know what YOU & OTHERS are thinking inside.

Always remember that you can explain things for people, but you can't comphrend for them.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Wetenschap is de titanische poging van het menselijk intellect zich uit zijn kosmische isolement te verlossen door te begrijpen

Een boek is voor hem [C. Buddingh'] zo iets als een rommelwinkel voor andere koopjesjagers. Je vindt hier en daar wat moois, een aardig vaasje, een raar plaatje, maar de winkelvoorraad als geheel interesseert je geen zier. Zo leest Kees boeken. Hij pikt er zinnetjes uit, zoals een kind snot uit z'n neus peutert en smakelijk opeet, zonder te weten hoe het is ontstaan, zonder zich in de functie van slijmvliezen en de ademhaling te verdiepen, zonder iets te begrijpen van de totale mens, hè.

Whether you do it this way or in some other way, you have to find a few larger patterns that integrate and make sense out of all of the specific changes.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

He feared that beyond the quilted gray satin of the undertaker's keep there was only a world of mystery that bypassed the comprehension of men and did not even take them into consideration. A world of utter darkness and the profoundest of silences.

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

Nobody is going to enjoy reading the contents of this book, but those who do read will be able to see things in their true perspective; they will be able to understand what is happening in the world today and why.

Only a few of Newton's contemporaries read the Principia with comprehension, and following generations chose to translate it into a more transparent, if less elegant, combination of algebra and the Newton-Leibniz calculus.

I do not even know what a matrix is," Heisenberg complained to Jordan. As

They gave us the rules of the game and the durable conviction that the physical world is comprehensible.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.