Quotes about Comprehension

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

Nature at the middle distance is familiar - so familiar that we are deluded into believing that we really know what it is all about. See very close at hand, or at a great distance, or from an odd angle, it seems disquietingly strange, wonderful beyond all comprehension.