Quotes About Comprehension

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Know what you are talking about.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me

1. The brain uses images to help the conscious mind understand.

I don't know a lot about

Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.

Dar, cum se întâmpl? adeseori cu oamenii, chiar cu cei mai misterio?i, ai deodat? sentimentul c? secretul e simplu: nu-?i lipse?te decât cheia pentru a dezlega combina?ia ?i pentru a-?i explica totul.

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

In silent surrender there is bliss and prayer without request or demand. There is no doer, experiencer, lover or beloved. There is only a divine current. You see that the very act of welcoming is itself the solution to the problem and the action which follows your comprehension is very straightforward. When you become familiar with the act of surrender, truth will solicit you unsought.

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.

Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

A la fin du dîner, elle l'avait si religieusement écouté qu'il la trouvait intelligente.

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

but so far it had only been used by Hound, who'd thought it was a leash and dragged Batty around accordingly.