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Quotes About Comprehension

Education is understanding relationships.
~ George Washington Carver
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.
~ Roger Caras
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
~ St. Jerome
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
~ George Orwell
Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.
~ Karen Armstrong
Data is not intelligence.
~ William Binney
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
~ Ernst Mach
The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.
~ James Jeans
Intelligence is the seeing of what is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
~ Heraclitus
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
~ Joe Whitney
The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.
~ Bruce Pandolfini
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
~ Tony Goldwyn
I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.
~ Anna Quindlen
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
~ Scott Adams
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
~ Christopher Hitchens
You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
~ Bryan Fuller
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~ Alfred N. Whitehead
To the good listener half a word is enough.
~ Spanish proverb
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
~ Robert Delaunay
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
~ Carl Linnaeus