Quotes About Comprehension

be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.'" "Oliver Wendell Holmes,

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

To be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension. It was as simple as that. If a God existed, humanity must strive to discover this God and help this deity become omniscient, not just in one infinity, but in an infinity of infinities.

Let's go on to postulate this infinite consciousness exists outside of space and time. In a way that is well beyond our possible comprehension. As you suggest, for want of a better word, let's call this infinite consciousness, God. I like that this God is postulated as being beyond space and time. Independent of space and time. If he weren't, then he would require a creator." Alyssa

When presented new information, we have no other option than to relate it to what we already know—there is no blank space in our minds within which new information can be stored so as not to "contaminate" it with existing information. —Clifford Konold, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate.

We test students right after they read something mostly to ensure that they have in fact read it. From this, many have drawn the erroneous conclusion that the only good that can be extracted from their reading is that which can be displayed on or measured by a test. This is wildly inaccurate. Most of the good your reading and education has done for you is not something you can recall at all.

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate. TAKEAWAY

he hardly knew any facts and was thus having trouble sticking to them.

your readings are the trees where your fallen leaves would come from. Mind mulch. Cognitive compost.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

When a person is talking, they aren't listening; Fools are made this way.

in order to teach a robot to imitate even a limited range of human behavior, you would have to, in a sense, teach it everything about the world.

He listens well who takes notes.

We can all read a book and still not understand it.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Nobody understands your life, but you.