Quotes About Comprehension

Regal Black Swan told me that in this world of personalities, there is always a duality. I had interpreted it as good versus bad, slavery or freedom, conformity and its opposite. But that is not the case. It is not black or white; it is always shades of gray. And most important, all the gray is moving in a progressive pattern back to the originator. I teased about our age and told him I needed another fifty years just for comprehension.

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Lots of shifting diagrams and numbers that might as well have been abstract art as far as I was concerned.

This is why I'm glad I'm not human. They come up with stuff like this. I said, "No. That's a human thing to do. Constructs aren't that stupid.

Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

If oy have to spend effort looking at a fragment of code and figuring out what it's doing, then you should extract it into a function and name the function after the "what".

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.

My wife and I own a cat we call Eureka, after Dorothy's cat in the fourth Oz book. In Eureka's dim mind she must be a kind of polytheist, fed as she is by the two of us, and by neighbors when we take a trip; surrounded on all sides by giant creatures who move about on their hind legs to do things utterly beyond her ken. But we who are her gods have a power of speculation far greater than that of her tiny feline brain.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

only he who already understands can listen

We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and every part of it.

La realidad de la situación del hombre —su efectiva carencia de libertad— le está oculta a éste mientras no conozca a Aquel en quien llega a entender y captar simultáneamente su propia realidad y la de Dios, su perdida condición y la misericordia divina, esas dos realidades que el hombre sólo puede comprender en uno y el mismo momento —o nunca.

Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.

Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion abused the independence granted them, those plans were sufficiently flexible to accommodate errors; that is, a large safety margin was left to ensure that mistakes would not develop into catastrophes.

a process by which we co-ordinate our ideas, define the meaning of the words we use, grasp the difference between essential and unessential factors, and fix and expose the fundamental data on which everyone is agreed. In this way we prepare the apparatus of practical discussion…. Without such an apparatus no two men can even think on the same line; much less can they ever hope to detach the real point of difference that divides them and isolate it for quiet solution.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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Kids absorbed more than most parents realized.