Quotes About Comprehension

I'm someone who really thinks the game through, who has an IQ about the game, who studies the game, who knows a lot more than just running and jumping.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

People are not stupid.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I watch Denzel Washington films with subtitles.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

I know—I know more than anyone—how deeply we are all connected—across time, across space, in ways that we can't yet comprehend!