Quotes About Comprehension

Don't ask," Micah said. "They've been best friends for years. Sometimes you just nod and let them have their guy moment." Dr. Cross frowned harder. "I don't understand." "I'm the wife," Micah said, "she's the husband, and he's the husband's best friend. Does that explain it?

This was the second time I'd asked about his wife. I seemed to be speaking English, but perhaps my questions were really Swahili and I just didn't realize it.

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   ââ'¬â€But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who find themselves ill at ease, unless they are let into the whole secret from first to last, of everything which concerns you.

If I told you, you'd only know it in your mind, not in your heart. There's a big difference.

Fruity said, "It went in one ear and out the other." Baba said, "Not surprising. There's very little in between to stop it.

Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro.

One must know a great many unimportant things in order to know those few things which are important.

this wonder of an Englishman who spoke indifferent but comprehensible Greek.… Before we parted he drew a

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.