Quotes About Comprehension

Belki de hiçbirimiz yaÅŸad?klar?m?z? tam olarak anlam?yor ve yeterli zaman?m?z kal?p kalmad???n? hissedemiyoruz.

Tommy thought it possible the guardians had, throughout all our years at Hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.

We were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.

Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

Bana bakt? ve konu?mamas?na ra?men o bak???n ne anlama geldi?ini anlad?m.

Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.

Though you must understand, it's still work in progress. And it's not always easy for a layperson to understand the way these things slowly take shape.

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what? and the why? of the big picture.

Strive from the outset to express yourself with such clarity that a bright twelve-year-old would understand you. Any fool can make it complicated: it takes focus to make it simple.

the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

For reasons no one understood, musicians were good at decoding.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

The first book that really appealed to Jack told the whole history of the world from the Creation to the founding of Kingsbridge Priory, and when he finished it he felt he knew everything that had ever happened.

Na verdade, tinha a impressão de que possuía mais informação e compreendia menos as coisas.

I see everything, but understand nothing!

I can see the…seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken.

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

I've thought of everything, know what I mean?

He had made his trip without quite realizing it.

At the Integral stages of development, the entire universe starts to make sense, to hang together, to actually appear as a uni-verse—a "one world"—a single, unified, integrated world that unites not only different philosophies and ideas about the world, but different practices for growth and development as well.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.