Quotes About Comprehension

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

I know because I read.

All this time, he'd been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Information is not knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.