Quotes About Comprehension

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt

El idiota suele ser buen lector, pero generalmente, de malos libros. No lee de izquierda a derecha, como los occidentales, ni de derecha a izquierda, como los orientales. Se las ha arreglado para leer de izquierda a izquierda

He picked something out of everything he read.

He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy is a God among men.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.

I don't recall the beginning of what you said, and consequently I also don't grasp the middle sections, while the part at the end I don't approve of.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace.

Monstrosities could be slain; but first they must be understood

Keajaiban pengetahuan: Tanpa mata yang melihat dia membikin orang mengetahui luasnya dunia: dan kayanya, dan kedalamannya, dan ketinggiannya, dan kandungannya, dan juga sampar-samparnya.

Hanya orang yang mengenal tata hidup dunia lain, sekalipun hanya melalui bacaan, dapat menilai tata hidupnya sendiri

Pengertian adalah hidup. Hidup adalah dihidupi dan menghidupi.

Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Education is what you know, not what's in the book.

D.H. Lawrence said that it was not living life that mattered but watching it be lived. I would say that it was not watching life that mattered but explaining what you saw.

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

You cannot say, "I will look it up." Your birthday and social security number are things you look up; trigonometric functions and identities are what you know all the time.

Because, as I have told you so many times, I have no words to make you understand," said the captain. It' s all the beauty and serenity and nobility you have ever experienced on earth. It's all your grandest and most generous feelings, and the finest sunsets and greatest music- and then you' re only on the fringe of understanding.

The real problem is that humans do not yet know enough about wolves, even though these animals have been intensively studied now for more than forty years. This means that there are no "wolf experts." Instead, there are some people who know a good deal about wolves, but there is no one person who knows ALL about them.

What, should we get rid of our ignorance, the very substance of our lives, merely in order to understand one another?

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...