Quotes About Comprehension

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

La atrajo hacia él y, por una vez, entendió lo que ella había sentido cada día desde que se conocían.

Mirad, recuerdo el amor, eso es lo que la gente no entiende.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything." "I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

We have been given two ears but a single mouth, in order that we may hear more and speak less.

If every statement is incomplete and every expression is situated upon a silent tacit comprehension, then it must be that things are said and are thought by a Speech and by a Thought which we do not have but which has us.

Ensinar a ler é sempre ensinar a transpor o imediato. é ensinar a escolher entre sentidos visíveis e sentidos invisíveis. é ensinar a pensar no sentido original da palavra "pensar" que significava "curar ou "tratar" um ferimento.

Escutar também é falar.

Lourenço o menino não entendeu uma coisa: vocês não manda, você só dá ordens. Entendeu?

O velho acenou fingindo perceber. Fica mal um homem perguntar explicação de prosa alheia.

The investigator is an interpreter (second order) of the interpretations people have already given to their lives (first order).

Once his head cleared, he turned to Matilda.

So far beyond rational thought is your attitude, that nothing I can say will change it. A lifetime of reasoning with you would not alter your amazing inability to comprehend reality.

You ask why God permits evil", Pawel said. "I do not know the answer to this. There are arguments one could make to explain it, but they always lack something—something elusive that may be far beyond our ability to comprehend. Would we misinterpret it, even if we could see? All attempts to understand evil fail in the end.

it is essential to figure out what you need to know about your new organization and then to learn it as rapidly as you can. The more efficiently and effectively you learn, the more quickly you will close your window of vulnerability.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?

When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.

I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's

Since everything is connected to everything else, in order to understand anything it is necessary to understand everything.

We gaan er altijd van uit dat lezen gemakkelijk is omdat we de techniek die we zo lang geleden hebben geleerd, vergeten zijn en het nu voortdurend zonder nadenken doen. Als een boek dus moeilijk lijkt, moet dat eerder de schuld van het boek zijn dan van de lezer.

Not your view, I know—you'd be happy to describe what you were up to purely in differential equations if you could—" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".