Quotes About Comprehension

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Not one word, " Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't any.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Love is the language spoken by many, but understood by just a few.

The mind uses logic, the heart just doesn't understand stuff like that.

We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one's smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.

The trick with women is knowing when to just let them talk.