Quotes About Comprehension

The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

A God alone can comprehend a God.

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

I'm a darned good listener.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

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

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.