Quotes About Comprehension

I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true.

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

How little we know of what there is to know.

You did not have to like it because you understood it.

Easy reading is hard writing

I understand. That's the trouble. I understand. I'll understand all the time. All day and all night. Especially all night. I'll understand. You don't have to worry about that.

I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another.

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

I think I understand, Willie," he said. "Oh shit," Willie said. "You never understand anybody that loves you.

The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.

You cannot know about it unless you have it.

You are aware of the result, not the process.

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.

The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton in a museum or a drop of blood

DNA wasn't a simple recipe book that could be readily understood.

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A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding

To divide all the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as many as were required to solve them in the best way, and to conduct my thoughts in a given order, beginning with the simplest and most easily understood objects, and gradually ascending, as it were step by step, to the knowledge of the most complex.

Veinte años al servicio de la poesía, suficiente tiempo como para saber que hay cosas que o se entienden al vuelo, incluso sin palabras, o nunca se las entenderá.