Quotes About Comprehension

As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Many of the modeling mistakes are modeler's poor listening skills.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Intellect and Intelligence are close stablemates, however one is a hacker the other a thoroughbred

To call something crazy is to confess that one doesn't understand it.

It is important that we know that we don't know when we're absorbing information. Meta-cognition is, "knowing about knowing". The common mistake that we make is we still continue to read when we no longer understand the context.

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.

to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.

We can never know everything," Holmes said, "but I fear that everything knows us.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

The question is not whether he read James, but which James he read.

you don't know what he hears because he just talks.

Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.

The issue was not that he might act precipitously and recklessly because he didn't understand the consequences of doing so. The issue was that he could not comprehend the actual choices that needed to be made in order to act; indeed, he could not even stay in the room long enough to decide on a course of action. For Trump, the fog of war would waylay him before the first command could be given.

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Jane had a mental block the size of the polar ice cap when it came to Andy's job. He said IT programming was no harder than learning a language but she'd never been able to do that either. As long as their computer at home let her occasionally shop on eBay she was fine not knowing why.

At their first meeting, she handed George a reading list made up of French and German philosophers. When George settled down to read these texts, he discovered something astonishing: the meaning of each word was clear and the meaning of sentences baffled. Insignificant yet crucial words like 'however' and 'which'- words whose meaning was surely beyond dispute - had been deployed in ways that made no sense.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. She was right, old Marie Curie.

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

I think I know who you are," he finally said. "It took me a minute, since you're better looking than I thought you'd be, but I think I've got it.