Quotes About Comprehension

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

If the students didn't understand the charade, I'd turn and write on the blackboard, but I tried to avoid even that. I didn't want the students automatically translating everything from sign to English—that slowed the process.

Tell Doris Jean I figure it's about time I learned that sign language,

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

They have understood of others' lives what they were capable of understanding. But even if it were like that, it would be otherwise.

Tout ce qui n'est pas moi est incompréhensible.

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

He understood my passion for books, which has made me perhaps the best-read idiot in the world.

I think the difficulty with people who can't follow printed directions for knitting or anything else is that they try to understand them. They read the whole thing through and it doesn't make sense to them, so they start with a defeatist attitude.

When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.

propped up between her friends, as she realized she'd been all her life. Why had it taken until now to understand that?

Gamache listened closely. To the words. The tone. The space between the words.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

What in the name of Buddha's bra is he going on about now?

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge