Quotes about Comprehension
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
- John Milton
Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- Aristotle
Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.
- Aristotle
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
- Mortimer Adler
I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.
- Tom Lehrer
The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to life. How a man can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a man can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
- JC Ryle
He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.
- Marcus Aurelius
Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.
- Marcus Aurelius