Quotes About Comprehension

In fond, oamenii nu citesc; daca citesc, nu pricep; daca pricep, uita.

La gente realmente intelligente e aperta non implorerebbe queste spiegazioni. Solo la gente volgare vuole spiegare tutto, anche quello che non si spiega. Perché dovrei dare spiegazioni che gli stupidi non comprenderebbero e di cui le menti più fini non avrebbero voglia?

Para mí, un loco es un ser cuyo comportamiento resulta inexplicable. El mío, en cambio, puedo explicarlo

Il y a tant de gens qui poussent la sophistication jusqu'à lire sans lire. Comme des hommes grenouilles, ils traversent les livres sans prendre une goutte d'eau.

Il s'y connaissait aussi peu qu'elle et aimait perdre son ignorance au meme rythme.C'etait une initiation qu'ils vivaient ensemble et dont il se reservait cependant la male initiative.

Par le passé, j'avais appris l'anglais, le néerlandais, l'allemand et l'italien. Il y avait une constante avec ces langues vivantes : je les comprenais mieux que je ne les parlais. C'était dans l'ordre de la logique : on observe un comportement avant de l'adopter. L'intuition linguistique fonctionne même quand la compétence n'est pas encore atteinte.

Il y a tant de gens qui poussent la sophistication jusqu'à lire sans lire. Comme des hommes grenouilles, ils traversent les livres sans prendre une goutte d'eau.... - Ce sont les lecteurs-grenouilles. Ils forment l'immense majorité des lecteurs humains, et pourtant je n'ai découvert leur existence que très tard. Je suis d'une telle naïveté. Je pensais que tout le monde lisait comme moi; moi, je lis comme je mange.

the eye does not see, what the mind does not know.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

Rod Carew told me once that for those that know you, no explanation is necessary, and for those that don't know you, none is possible. That's the philosophy I live by.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

I didn't understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.