Quotes About Comprehension

The minds of women are, in some degree, weaker than those of men, and are not so well able to comprehend a thing which is appreciable only by the intellect.

She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart.

We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

Jede Propaganda hat volkstümlich zu sein und hat sich auf das Verständnis der am wenigsten intelligente dieser Platz, den sie zu erreichen sucht which means All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the "age of freedom", for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a world where the one essential criterion - mediocrity - gives us the comfortable assurance that no leader shall possess any qualities whatsoever above our own immediate comprehension, man has made sure that no man shall be free.

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

to understand is always an ascending movement; that is why comprehension ought always to be concrete. (one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.) —Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in different colored pens. I have a more multi sensory memory - I remember what I was doing when I learnt it and where I was.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

Comprehension follows perception.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.