Quotes about Comprehension

Then Mason made an astonishing comment. He said to the girl, adamantly, in his slightly garbled and mumbly way, "You know, I used to have brain cancer. I was in a coma, and then I was here again." I had to close my eyes at the beauty of his understanding—that he was here again. He had woken up, as we are all called to do. I said, "You are a miracle.

My friend didn't understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

Learning begins at the level of the learner.