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Quotes About Comprehension

We understand the fabric of reality only by understanding theories that explain it. And since they explain more than we are immediately aware of, we can understand more than we are immediately aware that we understand.
~ David Deutsch
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
~ David Fincher
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
~ David Gerrold
one understands nothing psychological unless one has experienced it oneself.
~ David H. Rosen
one must experience and know."33
~ David H. Rosen
If you have to write it down, you don't know it well enough
~ David Halberstam
We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.
~ David Hume
We won't have a theory of everything without a theory of consciousness
~ David J. Chalmers
David J. Ridges
~ understanding,
Carmack quickly distinguished himself. In second grade, only seven years old, he scored nearly perfect on every standardized test, placing himself at a ninth-grade comprehension level.
~ David Kushner
A driver who has no interest in motorcycles, and isn't expecting to see one, may not comprehend a motorcycle regardless of how conspicuous it is.
~ David L. Hough
up, and at first it was not clear to him why. It was
~ David Lagercrantz
a good book teaches the reader how to read it.
~ David Lipsky
Athlete or not, I'm going to make sure you know how to read.
~ David Lubar
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
~ Robert Boyle
To find God, you must welcome everything.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind.
~ Nicolaus Zinzendorf
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The more you know, the more you see
~ Aldous Huxley
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
~ God ever arithmetizes.
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
~ John Adams
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
~ Plato
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?
~ Martin Luther