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Quotes About Comprehension

Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.
~ Unknown
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
~ Unknown
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
~ Unknown
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
~ Unknown
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
~ V. S. Naipaul
And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.
~ Unknown
the writer Upton Sinclair once wrote: `It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.
~ Unknown
How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?
~ Vernor Vinge
Not satisfied to just learn the ropes, he analyzed the game
~ Vicki Robin
Whenever people are particularly muddled in their thinking they invent big words to cover their confusion.
~ Unknown
Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.
~ Unknown
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
~ Arthur Cayley
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
~ John Ruskin
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
~ Bjork
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
~ Eric Schmidt
People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.
~ Kamasi Washington
You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together.
~ Unknown
Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.
~ Mark Helprin
The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
~ Richard Preston
The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
~ Clarence Darrow
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
~ John Dryden
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
~ W. Edwards Deming
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
~ Vance Havner
Never invest in a business you can't understand
~ Warren Buffett