Quotes About Comprehension

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

there something you know and

Y son pocos y sabios quienes no se conmueven ante números, gráficos y porcentajes.

Toda a compreensão é imperfeita porque, quanto mais se expande, em maiores fronteiras confina com o incompreensível que a cerca.

Creo en el mundo como en una margarita porque lo veo. Pero no pienso en él, porque pensar es no comprender... El mundo no se hizo para pensar en él (pensar es estar enfermo de los ojos) sino para mirar hacia él y estar de acuerdo... Yo no tengo filosofía: tengo sentidos... Si hablo de la Naturaleza no es porque sepa lo que es sino porque la amo, y la amo por eso, porque quien ama nunca sabe lo que ama ni sabe por qué ama, ni lo que es amar...

Leer es soñar de la mano del otro. Leer mal y por encima es tanto como librarnos de la mano que nos guía. La superficialidad en la erudición es el mejor modo de leer bien y ser profundo.

Por mim, escrevo a prosa dos meus versos  E fico contente, Porque sei que compreendo a Natureza por fora; E não a compreendo por dentro Porque a Natureza não tem dentro; Senão não era a Natureza.

Quien no ve bien una palabra , no puede ver bien un alma.

To reach the truth we lack both the necessary facts and the intellectual processes that could exhaust all possible interpretations of those facts.

El gozo de ser comprendido no puede disfrutarlo quien quiere ser comprendido, porque eso sólo les sucede a los complejos y a los incomprendidos; y los demás, los sencillos, los que pueden ser comprendidos por los demás, ésos nunca sienten el deseo de ser comprendidos.

A metà strada tra la fede e la critica c'è sempre l'ostello della ragione. La ragione è la fede in ciò che si può comprendere senza fede; ma è anche essa stessa una fede, perchè comprendere implica presupporre che esista qualcosa di comprensibile.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

My mamma and I have interesting literary discussions like the following which took place over some Modern Library books that I had just ordered: SHE: "Mobby Dick. I've always heard about that." ME: "Mow-by Dick." SHE: "Mow-by Dick. The Idiot. You would get something called Idiot. What's it about?" ME: "An idiot.

Most things are beyond me, Block said. I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood

True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind.

When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.