Quotes About Comprehension

True friends listens clearly to what you are saying and closely to what you're not saying.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.

He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

Computers are stupid.

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.