Quotes About Comprehension

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

Standing face to face with the world, we often sense a spirit which surpasses our ability to comprehend. The world is too much for us. It is crammed with marvel. The glory is not an exception but an aura that lies about all being, a spiritual setting of reality.

The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Come la vita, la letteratura è vissuta in avanti e compresa a ritroso.

Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

How fain I'd speak to those who know mythought, And silence keep to those who yet know nought.

Ott a legjobb a szÅ'lÅ', ahol honos. Ott érti meg az ember legjobban a demokrácia lényegét, ahol honos.

With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

No one properly gets, or can fully sympathize with, anyone else.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

My dear friend, I may be dense,' replied Humblot after having taken a brief and clearly bewildering glance at the opening of the novel, 'but I fail to see why a chap needs thirty pages to describe how he tosses and turns in bed before falling asleep.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

BulunduÄŸu ortamda defalarca telaffuz edilmiÅŸ bir sözcüÄŸü duymayan, t?pk? ancak anlam?n? öÄŸrendikten sonra o sözcüÄŸü duymaya baÅŸlayan birine benzeriz.

as we have seen, what

Pronouncing a lover "perfect" can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

It is common to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it.

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

But ma'am must have been briefed, surely?' 'Of course,' said the Queen, 'but briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Ma qualcuno l'avrà pure ragguagliata, Maestà?. Certamente, disse la regina ma ragguagliare non è leggere. Anzi, è l'esatto contrario. Il ragguaglio è succinto, concreto e pertinente. La lettura è disordinata, dispersiva e sempre invitante. Il ragguaglio esaurisce la questione, la lettura la apre.

Higher learning does not preclude the presence of lower minds.