Quotes About Comprehension

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Remember, if you don't get the question right, your answer doesn't matter.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling word and the working reader figures it out and savors it.

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

I understand thy kisses and thou mine,And that's a feeling disputation.

I am slow of study.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,An intellectual All-in-all!