Quotes About Comprehension

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

idjits.' 'What's an idjit?' asked Anne.

The third formers drank all this in avidly, casting sidelong glances at Esme to see how she was taking this.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university?

Does anyone bathe hastily? Do not say that they do it ill, but hastily. Does anyone drink much wine? Do not say that they do ill, but that they drink a great deal. For unless you perfectly understand their motives, how should you know if they act ill? Thus you will not risk yielding to any appearances except those you fully comprehend.

Though the web of history cannot be unravelled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivision of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential.

To know a country you must see it whole.

Lisait-il vraiment? Son oeil plissait, egare, sur les mots couches; il ne les reveillait pas, il les laissait dormir dans le troupeau du paragraphe. Il etait plus un gardien de livres qu'un lecteur.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

We learn to acquire knowledge and with wisdom, we apply it.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

The world out there is inherently hard to understand and human brains are not wired to understand it well.

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

He said, You know what Oscar Wilde said—women are meant to be loved, not understood. Applies to both of them, darling. And I nodded, although it seemed to me that I was going to be a woman too and I would like it if someone thought they should understand me.

For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process…the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which.

He was starting to learn that you didn't really know what it meant unless you felt the broken glass of worry that went with it.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

I'm not an elitist. I just know how to read.

É muito difícil percebermos a nossa vida no momento que ela acontece. É só em retrospectiva que vimos a compreender aquilo que a nossa mente soubera desde sempre, não através de uma compreensão do universo, mas pela lenta acumulação de factos que o ser que vai despertando não tem coragem de aceitar