Quotes About Comprehension

Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a mind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.