Quotes About Comprehension

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

Write bylaws in a simple language—no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it? I...huh? How can you understand something you don't believe in? Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechauns unless you believe in them. Do you understand leprechauns? I don't believe in them. There you go.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Doing philosophy is largely a matter of trying to put things together, trying to get the pieces of very large puzzles to make some sense

When you added dialogue to your piece, I really understood how Amy [the character] felt." This is not so much praise as a causal statement—you did this [added dialogue], with this consequence [I understood how the character felt]. Causal process statements are at the heart of building agency.

As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.

Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle

For Our Purposes, I define reading as looking at printed words and getting enough meaning from them to satisfy your purpose.

Rapid reading is not a difficult skill to learn.

I can't say I understand any of it, myself,' said Banks. 'Me, neither,' said Gerry.

Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.

Make it? Fred echoed. Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your turns. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which also reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I haven't...

Listen, I'm not an intellectual—Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our corporate state demands from us is comprehension of the social forces—of history.

I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.

Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead.

It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it

Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.