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Quotes About Comprehension

Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Essentially man is not a slave either of himself or of the world; but he is a lover. His freedom and fulfilment is in love, which is another name for perfect comprehension.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
It was hard to listen while you were talking. I had found out more by listening than I had ever thought possible.
~ Rachel Cusk
That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.
~ Rachel DeWoskin
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
~ Temple Grandin
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
~ Alan Perlis
The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.
~ Henry Markram
I have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
Sometimes, players find it impossible to see the bigger picture after games for the simple reason that we are the ones who have actually played.
~ Gareth Thomas
The only thing I do for everything is read the script a billion times, back to front, every single bit.
~ Phoebe Dynevor
All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
~ Lyall Watson
My daughter learned to say, 'They're not even trying to cover!' before her second birthday.
~ James Holzhauer
I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.
~ Mark E. Smith
Read much, but not many books.
~ Gustave Flaubert
All these years I have spent bowling have helped me understand the game better.
~ Anil Kumble
No one is going to understand your brand better than you.
~ Alexander Wang
Reading is a bridge to thought.
~ Maryanne Wolf
People don't look at the broader picture a lot of the time.
~ Edge
I really understood what success is with 'Kempegowda.'
~ Arjun Janya
Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.
~ Tucker Carlson
We always talk about experience and maturing, the best thing that can happen to a footballer is the game slows down for them. All of a sudden, they can see things, they can see passes, they can see space, the whole game opens up for them.
~ Steve Nicol
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
~ Alberto Manguel