Quotes About Comprehension

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard.

Quem diz que sabe exatamente como outra pessoa se sente é um idiota.

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The task of the sciences of human action is the comprehension of the meaning and relevance of human action. They apply for this purpose two different epistemological procedures: conception and understanding. Conception is the mental tool of praxeology; understanding is the specific mental tool of history.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him.

But Edward doesn't even flinch; it's as if he's reading the text of me with some magic internal Rosetta stone that makes him understand what I say is not what I mean at all.

You don't know what you don't know

Over the years, he's learned empathy the way I might learn Greek, translating an image or situation in the clearinghouse of his mind and trying to attach the appropriate sentiment to it, but never really fluent in the language.

Even the smartest person in the world could be scared by what he did or did not understand.

Details ensure accuracy and help avoid the risk of overlooking meaningful or nuanced behaviors

Confusion is that wonderful state right before clarity.

Another lesson to emerge is that in a complex technological disaster, hardware by itself won't solve the problem. You need to think things through, to diagnose and analyze and interpret.

But mind, when he explains anything to you, you won't be able to understand; but don't ask any questions, or else he will go on explaining and you will understand less than ever. Later when you have learnt more and know about things yourself, then you will begin to understand what he meant.

my tutor is very kind, and never cross, and he will explain everything to you. But mind, when he explains anything to you, you won't be able to understand; but don't ask any questions, or else he will go on explaining and you will understand less than ever. Later when you have learnt more and know about things yourself, then you will begin to understand what he meant.

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.

Lately I had been finding it hard to understand the simplest things people said to me, as if what they were speaking in were a form of language I did not recognise; I would know the words but could not assemble them into sense.

Oh, Ma, how little I understood you, thinking how little you understood.

T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

The more extensive our comprehension of God's greatness (though in itself it is incomprehensible), the greater our capacity for fear or reverence of Him.

Only through the mind can the world be seen. Only through the heart can it be understood.