Quotes About Comprehension

They were presented in enigmas, clad in riddles, and taught by an wise men in the most mysterious way that could be devised, not because they contain some secret evil, or are contrary to the fundamental principles of the Law (as fools think who are only philosophers in their own eyes), but because of the incapacity of man to comprehend them at the beginning of his studies:

Remember that it is not right to take a passage out of its context and to draw inferences from it. It is imperative to take into consideration the preceding and following statements in order to fathom the writer's meaning and purpose before making any deductions.

No hay que confundir el sentido del número con la facultad de contar. Únicamente la inteligencia humana puede alcanzar un grado de abstracción capaz de permitir el acto de contar, aunque el sentido del número está presente en muchos animales.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Wer nicht lange und geduldig zuhören kann, der wird am Andern immer vorbeireden und es selbst schließlich gar nicht mehr merken.

Words are vehicles of ideas, and unless they are understood properly misunderstanding is inevitable.

C'est sidérant ! Comment fais-tu pour lire autant et rester aussi con ? - Hé hé ! C'est là tout mon génie !

ustedes son hermosos el uno para el otro, porque se quieren y ya no se ven sino el alma, ¿es tan difícil de comprender acaso?

Pero ya es sabido que la elocuencia está en el oído de quien oye.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Il n'y a pas que les mots qui permettent d'entendre ce que l'autre n'arrive pas à formuler.

Assimilate the principles (or, core) of a system, and you can tack on the details later if you're interested.

absorb them, and relegate them to the status

je levais la main et je demandais des explications

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

A well-read man will yawn with boredom when one speaks to him of a new "good book," as he imagines a sort of composite of all the good books he has read, whereas a good book is something special, unforeseeable, made up not of the sum of all previous masterpieces but of something which the most thorough assimilation of every one of them would not enable him to discover, since it exists not in their sum but beyond it.

And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

whose eye Views all things at one view? He from Heaven's height

The design of God was, that his word should be always read and used in that language which was commonly understood by them unto whom he granted the privilege thereof; nor could any of the ends of his wisdom and goodness in that merciful grant be otherwise attained.

By some men's too much understanding, others are brought to understand nothing at all.

There is a great deal more to ignorance than the lack of management methods or scientific research. The evils of ignorance come first from not understanding where you are or what that means. French

At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.