Quotes About Comprehension

This works because when you communicate a skill to someone, you come to understand it more deeply yourself.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.

From my academic life, I was used to being in the company of very smart people, but it was apparent from the beginning that this was as smart a bunch of men as I had ever encountered. That first impression never changed (though I was to learn, in the years ahead, the severe limitations of sheer intellect

right hemisphere is responsible for our ability to comprehend metaphors

Empathy is related to Symphony—because empathic people understand the importance of context. They see the whole person much as symphonic thinkers see the whole picture.

You want to know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ things. You want to know everything. But you can understand so little.

Mais, c'est évident !".

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

You know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

Talking points aren't going to help the viewers understand something better. They're about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.

Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints.

In my opinion, with political and religious views, how can you 110 percent, full-hearted say without a shadow of a doubt say that this is how I feel, and this is where I want to be in my life, if you haven't looked at it any other way than just one angle?

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as "First you will do, then you will understand." Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.