Quotes About Comprehension

Mis kõige enam lugemist ohustab, on see: lugeja reaalsus, tema isiksus, pretensioonikus ja põikpäisus loetu ees aina iseendaks jääda - inimeseks, kes üldiselt teab, kuidas lugeda. Lugeda luuletust ei tähenda lugeda lihtsalt järjekordset luuletust, see ei tähenda isegi sisenemist luule olemusse selle luuletuse kaudu. Luuletuse lugemine on see luuletus ise, mis ennast lugemises kinnitab.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Niemand is waarlijk mijn vriend, voordat we geleerd hebben in elkanders tegenwoordigheid te zwijgen.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Philosophy: circles that include one another.

N)o explanatory hypothesis is more clear than the very act by which we take up this incomplete world in order to attempt to totalize it and to think it.

The natural 'thing,' the organism, the behavior of others and my own behavior exist only by their meaning; but this meaning which springs forth in them is not yet a Kantian object; the intentional life which constitutes them is not yet a representation; and the 'comprehension' which gives access to them is not yet an intellection.

All knowledge is established within the horizons opened up by perception.

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

Insight must precede application.

Sometimes I cannot state what race they are speaking my fingers"

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

Žena zna, žene uvijek znaju, makar ništa ne bilo re?eno, i prije ?e pomisliti da jest nego da nije.

Slušalac je babica u teškom poro?aju re?i. Ili nešto još važnije. Ako taj drugi želi da razume.

I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.

Because friend was encompassing, and here it encompassed so much, including the contradictions.

It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense

I knew him, but I don't understand him.

She talked, he nodded. She was satisfied. He was oblivious.

Because I know you.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

St. John says, ". . . the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (1:5) and "he came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. . ." (1:11-12)

A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn't about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.