Quotes About Comprehension

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but Im not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

But, all things considered, I believe that most people read quickly because they want not to read but to have read. But why do they want to have read? Because, I think, they conceive of reading simply as a means of uploading information to their brains.

When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

All books want our attention, but not all of them want the same kind of attention, and good readers know this and make the necessary adjustments.

The more sober you get, the more clearly you feel

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

Parrots can remember and repeat words and speak like human beings. But they do not understand what they are saying. As far as they are concerned, these are only sounds that humans have taught them to say.

Thus, showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing.

To see the world from another's point of view, and make sense of it.

To see the world from another's point of view, and make sense of it.' 'I think it has blossomed in Ram.

what is apparently a good deed need not really be a good deed, for every moment is governed by factors that are often beyond human comprehension.

Hindu thought, however, looks at truth quantitatively: everyone has access to a slice (bhaga); the one who sees all slices of truth is bhaga-van. Limited

wanted to tell him I understood. But the truth was, no one can really understand what another person is going through.

Stupidity is not an infection, it's a condition.

God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

These conclusions, however, can only be understood when we know what we mean by reality and have a clear line of demarcation between the subjective and the objective. Any one who is trained in philosophical method knows that this is asking a good deal.

Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth [Symphony] was about.

There cannot be the understanding of that which is given until there is experienced that which is taken.

dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.