Quotes About Comprehension

A wise person is one who knows how to make complicated matters simple.

There is no objective test for divine revelation, no forensic evidence to evaluate. Even for the believer it is an experience beyond normal comprehension. It is, as T.S. Eliot put it, the intersection of the timeless with time. Mortals on occasion may, perhaps, catch transient glimpses that give intimations of this profound experience, which is the theme of Eliot's poem The Four Quartets.

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves. Ah knows a few things, and womenfolks thinks sometimes too! Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

Ah'm hard of understandin' at times.

Most people is thin-brained.

Yeah, a real nigga studies his woman. I

It takes me a while to absorb things.

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.

No one can understand my accent!

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

I have no idea how to account anything.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Women have an advantage in that they can think both like a woman and a man.

As an agent, you probably know the talent through and through more than anybody.

I have an analytical mind.

You always need to make sure that you're looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the story, know what's happening. You have to write for everyone.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

Das Glück hat keine Geschichte, und die Erzähler aller Länder haben das so gut begriffen, dass der Satz "Sie wurden glücklich" alle Liebesabenteuer schließt.

Lucien traversa le Pont-Neuf en proie à mille réflexions. Ce qu'il avait compris de cet argot commercial lui fit deviner que, pour ces libraires, les livres étaient comme des bonnets de coton pour des bonnetiers, une marchandise à vendre cher, à acheter bon marché.

To be loved, dear, to be comprehended, is the greatest of all joys; I pray that you may taste it!

L'un des malheurs auxquels sont soumises les grandes intelligences, c'est de comprendre forcément toutes choses, les vices aussi bien que les vertus.