Quotes About Comprehension

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it's still got two sides.

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Good, because I don't understand anything at all.

He slowly unfolded it, cleared his throat, scratched his head, and said, "Would you rather go to the dentist or throw up?" Good grief , thought Caroline, as the minutes ticked by. How was he supposed to be her for a day if he didn't ask any better questions than that?

The Teachers, even of Christianity, are in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar. p. 105

Todos os que afirmam saber as coisas sobre as quais medito, seja por tê-las ouvido de mim, seja por tê-las ouvido de outros, seja por tê-las descoberto sozinhos, não é possível, segundo meu parecer, que tenham entendido algo desse objeto. Sobre essas coisas não existe um texto escrito meu nem existirá jamais.

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

We are completely perplexed, then, and you must clear up the question for us, of what you intend to signify when you use the word being. Obviously you must be quite familiar with what you mean, whereas we, who formerly imagined we knew, are now at a loss.

And is it not best to understand what is said, whether at the writing-master's or the music-master's, or anywhere else, not as quietly as possible, but as quickly as possible? Yes.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario.

Un montaggio è un lavoro che ognuno se lo deve studiare da sé, con la sua testa, e ancora meglio con le sue mani: Perché sa, le cose, a vederle da una poltrona oppuramente da un traliccio alto quaranta metri, fa differenza.

Clausner shows me the bottom of his bowl. Where others have carved their numbers, and Alberto and I our names, Clausner has written: 'Ne pas chercher à comprendre.

It really seemed that Edek was answering the questions that Mendel was asking himself, that he read in the depths of Mendel's brain, in that secret bed where thoughts are born. But it itsn't so strange, Mendel thought; two good clocks mark the same hour, even if they are of different make. They only have to start together.

And that is where you want to be. Because in His arms, you'll know the beauty of His peace—"the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension" and which guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).

Jules Winnfield: ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!? Samuel L. Jackson

He said ... A pause. He cleared his throat. He said that pity was the only love I could hope for. He saw her swallow, blink. Oh, Akka ... Of all the world, only she truly understood. Of all the world.

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. —

You have to learn how to listen before you will hear.

I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't these different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they have all their own place, and when you see it from the sky - whoa.

I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky--whoa.

Do you hear the argument the other side makes?