Quotes About Comprehension

that girl has no more sense than a postage stamp.

I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

If you're going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

There's a difference between hearing people and listening to them.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

Am I Making Myself Clear?

There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Inventor Charles F. Kettering said, "There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Todas las cosas son fáciles de entender cuando se descubren. El punto es descubrirlas. Eso requiere investigación".

listener's lean.

OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy. WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.

The neurologist and psychologist Maurice Nicoll told how he had once asked his headmaster about a passage in the Bible, and after he had listened to the answer for some time, he realized that the man had no idea what he was talking about. What I admire about Nicoll is that he made this discovery when he was only ten. It took me another forty-five years before the penny dropped: very, very few people have any idea what they are talking about.

toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

I don't understand half of what I read,' Christie began, speaking with extreme precision. 'All I know is that every one of those old books has its own atmosphere for me.

I want someone that understands me and all of my complexity.

You don't listen when I talk, maybe you'll listen when I walk.

Sad are only those who understand