Quotes About Comprehension

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

I do not pretend to say whether or not dogs have a language of their own. Personally, I think they have, and a very comprehensive one, too. But I cannot prove it. No dog student, however, will deny that two dogs communicate their wishes to each other in some way by (or during) the swift contact of noses.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

We grieve only for what we know.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

if you want to be understood ...Listen.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

Sometimes, however, a man can grasp this without being a great metaphysician, when he is still fresh to the problem; and it is only by discussing it, and hearing it discussed, that he becomes incapable of understanding it.

there are two forms of observation: the first is on the detail and the second is on the big picture.

I often of someone by listening to the questions they pose. It shows how they think; offers a sense of their level of experience and degree of maturity.

To project our own worldview is to refuse to learn what happened, which prevents us comprehending worldviews that differ significantly from our own. If we insist on treating history as a mirror, we shall see only ourselves.

for He could not have reminded those who witnessed His works, and heard Him preach, of all the prophets in turn, unless He had comprehended them all in His one person. The very diversity of opinion respecting Him, therefore, showed that a greater than Elias, or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, had appeared.

Excessive information creates its own form of blindness to what is actually going on.

As physicist Paul Davies writes in The Goldilocks Enigma (Allen Lane, 2006): Somehow the universe has engineered, not just its own awareness, but also its own comprehension. Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make not just life, but understanding. The evolving cosmos has spawned beings who are able not merely to watch the show, but to unravel the plot.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Stuff the headWith all such reading as was never read:For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,And write about it, Goddess, and about it.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.

Algunas personas nunca aprenden nada, porque todo lo comprenden demasiado pronto.