Quotes About Comprehension

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.

Nature is the shape in which the man of higher Cultures synthesizes and interprets the immediate impressions of his senses. History is that from which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

Unity of space being thus reestablished, the infinity that is expanded in all directions by the picture is ruled by the Western perspective; and from perspective there runs a road straight to the comprehension of our astronomical world picture and its passionate pioneering into unending farness.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension. --"Wanda

Do you imagine that a corrupt age cannot revere, that an artificial age cannot be stirred by truth, that an abject age cannot rise to comprehension under the compelling force of genius ?—you are wrong to doubt. Was it not the vilest of the Pagan ages that gave credence, and foothold, and tenure, to the faiths and the philosophies of Paul 1

The rest who does not know?

Understanding what another human being says to us is always a matter of translation.

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

hesitated, knowing that he was talking about

I love you Reece Sheridan." He grinned. "I kinda figured.

You're fluent in a language once you can explain to someone—in that language—how to tie his shoes"? (I can.)

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

Quem, nada pode fazer, nada compreende. Quem nada compreende, nada vale.

quem compreende também ama, observa, vê... Quanto mais conhecimento houver inerente numa coisa tanto maior o amor...

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.

Do you see?" "Sort of," she said, and she frowned hard to make her head work better.

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

The more you love your dog, the more you need to understand human behavior.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children's books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

The only limit to the energy available to us is the limits of our understanding.