Quotes About Comprehension

human beings have an intense craving, often unfulfilled, to be understood by someone else.

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

How was someone supposed to understand something like love?

An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.

The trouble with Ian Mackenzie's questions was that he asked the unanswerable. And yet she should know how to answer—everyone should. But they couldn't, because everyone simply knew. Everyone except Ian.

What was it like?" His words were so low she barely caught them. "Explain to me what loving feels like, Beth. I want to understand.

You know the expression," Eddie said. " 'Don't write if you can talk, and don't talk if you can nod.' " Styles was delighted. "A mick said that.

You know the expression," Eddie said. " 'Don't write if you can talk, and don't talk if you can nod.' " Styles was delighted. "A mick said that." Eddie winked.

You will never know how much I understand you.

Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most straight people. If you're not trans, you're free from thinking about what gender you are in the same way that white people in America are generally free from having to think about what race they are.

It's not a ridiculous idea." Sloane stood up. Her voice trembled. "You just can't see it. You don't understand it. But just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you get to ignore it. You can't just pretend the pattern doesn't exist and hope it goes away." -Sloane

I understand now. The three of you share a single iota of common sense. I'm just a little unclear on which one of you has custody of it now.

It makes perfect sense—Hawthorne sense.

Goed geraden,' antwoordde Alisa. Ze keek even achterom. 'Meneer Hawthorne was zeer gesteld op mensen die goed konden raden.

I know the way you move. I know the way you look at me. I see you see me, and you're the only one who looks at me that way. Whether I'm with you or away from you, I don't have to think about it or put the puzzle pieces together. It's just you. That's what I know.

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

Jamais ils ne comprendront que ce qu'on apporte, lorsqu'on a la gloire d'apporter quelque chose, déforme ce qu'on apprend.

I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks.

if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed

B?rni sp?j dzi?i just, bet neizprot savas j?tas; un, ja tie da??ji t?s ar? izprot, tad nevar nek? past?st?t.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.