Quotes About Comprehension

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.

The obvious is always least understood.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

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

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.