Quotes About Comprehension

WHAT MAKES A GOOD LISTENER? 1. Not interrupting. 2. Showing that you empathize: not criticizing, arguing, or patronizing. 3. Establishing a physical sense of closeness without invading personal space. 4. Observing body language and letting yours show you are not distracted but attentive. 5. Offering your own self-disclosures, but not too many, or too soon. 6. Understanding the context of the other person's life. 7. Listening from all four levels: body, mind, heart, and soul.

Knowledge has organizing power inherent in it. It is simply enough to know, to be aware of the principles;

Jamás comprenderemos cabalmente el cómo, el dónde ni el cuándo de nada, ni siquiera de algo tan simple como el agua hirviendo. Debemos rendirnos a la incertidumbre y apreciar su belleza.

There's nothing to get. It's the law. Skye's hold on her temper slipped. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

You cannot understand any individual passage in Revelation unless you understand the book as a whole, but you cannot understand the hook as a whole unless you understand its individual passages.

Am I on your page?" Jesse asked. Rosie knew Jesse liked her, loved her, maybe, but this was not about that. "Yes," Rosie said, making eye contact with Jesse. "How could you not be on my page? ... (But) even though we are on the same page, we see the page differently," Rosie had continued, enjoying the moment, "my page -- which I admit you are on -- is not the page that you think you are on. You will never see the page the same as me. You cannot look through my eyes and see what I see.

Oh my god you're thicker than you look

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

Information is not knowledge.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.