Quotes about Comprehension

By some men's too much understanding, others are brought to understand nothing at all.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and every part of it.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

The issue was not that he might act precipitously and recklessly because he didn't understand the consequences of doing so. The issue was that he could not comprehend the actual choices that needed to be made in order to act; indeed, he could not even stay in the room long enough to decide on a course of action. For Trump, the fog of war would waylay him before the first command could be given.

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.