Quotes About Comprehension

I embrace everything.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Listening is the essence of anything.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Understanding is very different from knowing. Understanding is a psychological process of perceiving an object through reason. It is, in a sense, conceptualizing an object. But an object cannot be fully comprehended by conceptual understanding alone. Knowing is not thinking artificially or mobilizing rational logic. It is a state in which you come to obviously and plainly know, without trying to get it right.

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The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

But one who speaks in a borrowed tongue should be thankful if he can just make himself intelligible.

Its so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

One cannot simply perceive everything, to be able to perceive everything would be to tedious

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did.

Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.