Quotes about Comprehension

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Is this what you're trying to tell me?" "Is this the point you're making to me today?" "Is this what you want me to get from this conversation?" "Is this what you want me to do after we're done talking?" "Is this how I need to respond?" "Is there anything else I need to know about this?

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.