Quotes About Comprehension

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

We can only know others by ourselves.

You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

The words strike like they never did before. Before words were flat. Now I hear them - understand in a new way.

In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

When you're deep in study mode, stop every thirty minutes to review what you've just learned. Repeat the information you just covered out loud to yourself. This helps cement it in your brain even more when you want to recall it.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole...We are sorely deficient in wisdom, lacking a view of how all these pieces of knowledge connect to make the world a better place.

But knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole.

The more you know, the less you need to say.