Quotes About Comprehension

That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

so meer Poets and meer Musicians, are as sottish as meer Drunkards are, who live in a continuall mist without seeing, or judgeing any thing clearly. A man should be learn'd in severall Sciences, and should have a rea?sonable Philosophicall, and ni some measure a Mathematicall head; to be a compleat and excellent Poet

A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.

Exist? trei feluri de oameni inteligenÈ›i: unii atât de inteligenÈ›i, încât consider? de la sine înÈ›eles s? li se spun? asta, cei din a doua categorie sunt suficient de inteligenÈ›i s?-È™i dea seama c? sunt flataÈ›i, nu descriÈ™i È™i cei din a treia, care sunt atât de puÈ›in inteligenÈ›i încât nu înÈ›eleg nimic.

necessity of keeping the soul open to the ever-growing consciousness of God. Is healing a wonder? No, the marvel is that men have remained blind to the power of God for so long. How is it that you and I, raised in Christian homes, reading the Word of God, praying to our Father God, failed to comprehend that the power of God through Christ is able to save a man from all his sins and all his sicknesses?

Effective communication is not someone else's job, nor does it begin with being understood. Rather, it's about understanding the other person.

El destino al que está abocado cualquier especialista de cualquier área de la ciencia es ceñirse cada vez más estrechamente al tema de su especialidad, aprendiendo cada vez más sobre cada vez menos materia, hasta acabar finalmente sabiéndolo todo sobre nada.

Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.

Garp was a natural storyteller; he could make things up, one right after the other, and they seemed to fit. But what did they mean?

You have taught yourself to read English, too," Pepe said slowly to the boy; the girl suddenly gave him the shivers, for no known reason. "English is just a little different—I can understand it," the boy told him

And Juan Diego had selected this particular book because it was in English; he'd wanted more practice reading English, though his less-than-rapt audience (Lupe and Rivera and the disagreeable dog Dirty White) might have understood him better en español.

Every misunderstanding has at its center a breakdown of language.

What a phrase that is: "that explains everything!" I know better than to think that anything "explains everything" today.

Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefühl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ähnelt um dich zu verstehen

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

Ignatius, what's all this trash on the floor? That is my worldview that you see. It still must be incorporated into a whole, so be careful where you step.

Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...

Parce que, à sa façon de causer, on voyait bien que le gars était allé très longtemps à l'école. C'était probablement ce qui l'avait rendu dingue.

requiere cierta «visión de conjunto» que revele el significado y la relevancia de cada una de las partes. Los atenienses perdieron esa «visión de conjunto» en Sicilia. La asamblea

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.