Quotes About Comprehension

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at.

once you enumerate them all, once you sample seven billion examples from each of seven billion humans and fit them together in their trillion trillion contexts, all things begin to come clear.

The classic Ebola face made the monkeys look as if they had seen something beyond comprehension.

As always in biology, the problem was to know what you were looking at.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand! There is no point at which you can say, "I've got it." Always and forever, mystery gets you!

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand!

mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!

There was something about educated people that made it impossible for them to admit when they didn't understand something.

Everyone has one system they use and one they are building, but most do not see the bigger picture of the system they are in.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

How does Galdoila know about the reward? i asked. He reads the signs, Grover said. Duh. Of course, I said. Silly me.

I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo

If You Understand What Happens in This Chapter, Please Tell Me, Because I Have No Clue

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil.

I would give my life for my children, but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me

She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

The story is smarter than I am.

I don't understand,' said Despereaux. 'And you will not understand until you lose what you love...

You can't explain a degree to a dog

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It was one of those still, clear moments when you realize that you haven't understood anything at all, that you have had no real comprehension of the other person's world.

My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only to realize that I had no memory at all for what I had just read. Each book or poem I picked up was the same way. Incomprehensible. Nothing made sense.