Quotes About Comprehension

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go — the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

We are all stupid. The smartest person is just a little less stupid than the rest of us.

Man know much more than he understands.

Man knows more than he understands.

Je connais peu les femmes; mais il me semble qu'il est difficile qu'on admire ce qu'on ne comprend pas

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

I don't deny that I study everything. Stuff from the 70s, 80s, 90s, current I watch it all.

I've watched quite a few matches to understand English football.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

I've always been a very observant person, a visual person. That's my way of learning. Things on paper, notes and things like that, don't help me the same way as watching things live.

I've always been a scientist in terms of watching basketball. I like to dissect it all.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Purely on their own, words are inert splashes of ink, sound waves, blips on a screen and the like. Our minds perceive these and make meaning and our minds are part of living in the real world.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.