Quotes About Comprehension

A scrutiny so minute as to bring an object under an untrue angle of vision, is a poorer guide to a man's judgment than a sweeping glance which sees things in their true proportion.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

a true magician always knows the exact meaning of every word and action of a ritual.

I catch the idea by two senses. But when I read aloud I hear what is read and I see it, and hence two senses get it and I remember it better, if I do not understand it better.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and.

Once you start listing the elements of a system, there is almost no end to the process. You can divide elements into sub-elements and then sub-sub-elements. Pretty soon you lose sight of the system. As the saying goes, you can't see the forest for the trees.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and." -Sufi teaching story

Remember—all system diagrams are simplifications of the real world.

The world peeps, squawks, bangs, and thunders at many frequencies all at once. What is a significant delay depends—usually—on which set of frequencies you're trying to understand.

There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is "true," that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

Are you calling me a dummy?" "Not at all. I'm just saying that maybe some of us caught on a bit faster than others.

I read books, not minds, Guido.

the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.

The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything. There is truth in this clever crack, but, as Niels Bohr impressed, while the opposite of a trivial truth is false, the opposite of a great truth is another great truth.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

It is well to understand as early as possible in one's writing life that there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us

there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us.

information into certain

A technique for good listening is to listen to what your partner has to say without interrupting and let them know you heard them by telling them what you think they just said.

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit