Quotessence
Home / Topics / Comprehension Quotes

Comprehension Quotes

Browse 359 quotes about Comprehension.

Related topics

UnderstandingPeopleMenHumansKnowsIfsWayThinkingWorldArtReadingWantMayMindReasonBodyLittlesScienceUseWritingFirstsMatterShouldAbleActionBelieveChildrenHandsHas BeensHeartLife IsLyingMeanPersonsSoulVisionWholeBookBornFactsFormIdeasIndividualLanguageLastsMadeProcessTwoWells

Comprehension Quotes

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.”

LovePhilosophyPastLawTimeReligionHumanitySpiritualityEvilPoliticsPeaceChangeFreedomCompassionKindnessPsychologyFateGenerationsSocietyAtheismMankindMoralityFutureBehaviorEternityFoundationConservativeGoodGood And EvilConsiderationMortalityTemporaryWrongPresentRightSkepticismStatus QuoDoomUtopiaExtremismComprehensionProgressionDescendantsRight And WrongNormalityTheismAncestorsApologeticsLiberalLawlessnessSlippery SlopeEraStandardPeriodAgesSkepticism And Religion
Book:Healology
Create image

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”

BookStoriesWisdomHumorFunnyPainSufferingQuotesLiteratureUnderstandingGriefEducationConsciousnessFictionKnowledgeNovelLearningToo MuchSadnessAwarenessIgnoranceHumourBooksSorrowDespairPerceptionHeartbreakJokesHumorousCapacityAccountsMiseryEntertainmentAppreciationIgnorantCommandEducatedRealizationNarrativeAccomplishmentHeartacheTortureAuthorWriterEnlightenedSatireStoryWritersUnhappinessCapabilityMasteryNonfictionAcceptableAphorismEntertainingAgonyDistressQuotationsJokeTormentEssaysHilariousEscapeUnbearableDiscomfortAuthorsUnderstandKnowExpertiseScholarshipComprehensionAphorismsSchoolingEscapismApprehensionCognitionKnowledgeableIlliterateDesolationEssaySkillUneducatedTolerableWretchednessManageableWell EducatedScholarlyAphoristAphoristsOverpoweringInsufferableUninformedEruditeUnendurableEruditionProficiencyLearnedNarrativesComprehendAccountEntertainGraspSustainableUnacceptableWell ReadInexperiencedCultivatedCulturedIntolerableWell InformedCognizanceUnschooledUnsophisticatedEndurableInsupportableUnworldlyMan Of LettersUnknowledgeableUnreadUntrainedVia DolorosaAdeptnessAdmissibleBe Acquainted WithBe Conversant WithBe Familiar WithBe Up To Speed OnBe Versed InBenightedBrookableExpertnessHave A Grasp OfHave Knowledge OfHave LearnedHave MasteredHave MemorizedKnowledgableMen Of LettersSufferableSupportableUnenlightenedUnlearnedUnletteredUnmanageableUntaughtUntutoredWoman Of LettersWomen Of Letters
Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Create image

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

GovernmentPoliticsPresidentEmotionDemocracyVoteWhite HouseComprehensionMoronSensePublic OfficeMob
Author:H.L. Mencken
Create image

“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be.”

LifeHumanityLiteratureEmotionBooksClarityAloneComprehensionJane AustenAustenSelf Recognition
Author:Alain de Botton
Create image

“The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.”

PhilosophyScienceKnowledgeTechniquePhysicsComprehensionMechanics
Author:José Ortega y Gasset
Create image

“Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action." Olivier frowned. "So?" "Dear boy, I must tell you a secret." "What?" "I do believe it is wrong.”

PhilosophyActionUnderstandingVirtueWrongRightComprehension
Book:The Dream of Scipio
Create image

“Silence may be their preferred language, but the quiet echoes of unanswered messages provide a blank canvas for the artistry of patience to create masterpieces of comprehension. The gallery of unheard words gives me - comfort. Because we recognize that the deepest talks are sometimes the darkest conversations. We hold our breath as we wait for responses that are loudly whispered.”

SilenceComfortPatienceComprehensionBreathUnheard WordsDarkest ConversationsDeep TalksUnanswered MessagesWhispered Responses
Author:Huzefa Nalkheda wala
Create image

“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.”

ThinkingUnderstandingActingAcceptanceCommitmentMiracleValueSurrenderMoving OnBehaviourBeingComprehensionPsychoanalysisFallingLearning By Doing
Author:Clarice Lispector
Create image

“When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. The word "comprehend" is made up of the Latin roots cum, which means "with," and prehendere, which means "to grasp it or pick it up." There is no other way to understand something.”

UnderstandingCompassionMindfulnessComprehension
Book:Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Create image

“We seek beauty, but our understanding of its nature is limited. We find it primarily in easy-to-appreciate human forms. As we grow older and learn more, we journey closer to the truth of beauty. We begin to perceive it more powerfully in minds than in bodies. We stay on our quest, ascending, going higher and higher in our conception of beauty. As we do, our capacity to recognize beauty grows larger. We can take in more. Our eyes adjust to the bright light of the true nature of beauty until, at last, we may be able to behold it - perfect beauty, which is "pure, clean, unmixed, and not infected with human flesh, colors, or morality." Glimpsing to at last, we become part of a bigger sum, something vast and immortal.”

TruthBeautyComprehension
Book:Easy Beauty
Create image

“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.”

MoneyRichGreedInequalityPossibleComprehensionFamineAvarice
Book:The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
Create image

“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.”

LoveLifeGodTruthChristianDeathPurposeReligionFaithSpiritualityJesusPeaceChristChristianityGraceLivingForgivenessMercyDifficultySalvationSimplicityLifestyleTheologyRedemptionMeaningComplexityMeaning Of LifeOrthodoxParadoxPeace Of MindTruth Of LifeLiving LifeUnderstandComprehensionAccuracyEverythingLiving Life To The FullestSinsTheismApologeticsChristendomComplicationsSuch Is LifeFundamentalComprehension AccuracyFundamental TruthDifficulty Of Conversion
Book:Healology
Create image

“Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one.”

ReadingUnderstandingComprehension
Book:The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian
Create image

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language. Thus, in the translation of poetry there exists a possibility of the components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expansion of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and different methods employed by the translator.”

PoetryLanguagePoemComprehensionReadersTranslationNepaliQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“In the translation of poetry, there exists a possibility of the components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expansion of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and different methods employed by the translator.”

PoetryLanguagePoemComprehensionReadersTranslationNepaliQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“कविता कविबाट निस्किएर पाठकमा प्रवेश गरेपछि पाठकको चेतनावृत्तमा समाहित हुन्छ । एउटा पाठकले कवितालाई आफ्नो चेतनाभन्दा बाहिर फैल्याएर ग्रहण गर्न सक्दैन, बरू खुम्च्याएर गर्न सक्छ । यसो हुने हुनाले प्रत्येक कविता हरेक पाठकमा पुग्दा कुनै न कुनै रूपमा फेरिएर पुग्ने सम्भावना सँधै रहिरहेको हुन्छ । यो ‘फेरिनु’ प्रकारान्तरले अनूदित हुनु नै हो । त्यसैले कविताको प्रत्येक बुझाइ एउटा अनुवाद हो ।”

PoetryPoemComprehensionAssimilationReadersTranslationNepaliQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“पाठकले कवितालाई आफ्नो चेतनाभन्दा बाहिर फैल्याएर ग्रहण गर्न सक्दैन, बरू खुम्च्याएर गर्न सक्छ ।”

PoetryPoemComprehensionAssimilationReadersTranslationNepaliQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“कविता अर्को भाषामा अनूदित हुनु अघि मूलभाषामै अनुवादकको चेतनाको आकारभित्र खुम्चिने वा फैलिने भइसकेको हुन्छ, अर्को भाषामा अनूदित हुँदा त्यो फेरि अनुवादकको लक्षित भाषाको चेतनावृत्तभित्र अझ खुम्चिने वा अझ फैलिने गर्दछ ।”

PoetryLanguagePoemComprehensionReadersTranslationQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetNepali QuotesPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“कविताको अनुवादमा कविको कल्पनाशक्ति, शब्दकौशल, साङ्गीतिक चेत, ज्ञानको आकार आदि अवयवहरू अनुवादकको सीमितता वा वैशिष्ट्यबाट प्रभावित हुने सम्भावना रहन्छ ।”

PoetryLanguagePoemComprehensionReadersTranslationNepaliQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“कविता अर्को भाषामा अनूदित हुनु अघि मूलभाषामै अनुवादकको चेतनाको आकारभित्र खुम्चिने वा फैलिने भइसकेको हुन्छ, अर्को भाषामा अनूदित हुँदा त्यो फेरि अनुवादकको लक्षित भाषाको चेतनावृत्तभित्र अझ खुम्चिने वा अझ फैलिने गर्दछ । त्यसले गर्दा कविताको अनुवादमा कविको कल्पनाशक्ति, शब्द कौशल, साङ्गीतिक चेत, ज्ञानको आकार आदि अवयवहरू अनुवादकको सीमितता वा वैशिष्ट्यबाट प्रभावित हुने सम्भावना रहन्छ ।”

PoetryLanguagePoemComprehensionReadersTranslationNepaliQuote By Nepali WritersNepali PoetPoet S Mind
Book:भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
Create image

“The leading cause of death - heart disease -, and the most common mental illness - depression -, have one thing in common - lack of consciousness. This consciousness is not a metaphysical or philosophical construct but an understanding that becomes very organic when found. Those who express too much anger, resentment and ignorance are part of this spiritual darkness that comes from a complete detachment from consciousness. The progress of consciousness then begins with a comprehension of our senses. At the most fundamental level, we must understand the Muladhara chakra - our connection to mother Earth. You then come to the second chakra, which is balanced through what you eat - it is empowered with that which comes from the soil or that which is rooted to the soil. And then you can begin to understand the third chakra - what you feel. You heal these 3 chakras, and you begin to understand consciousness while healing your body and mind.”

UnderstandingHealingConsciousnessIgnoranceAngerComprehensionChakra
Author:Dan Desmarques
Create image

“The word for intellect in the Arabic language is 'aql; it can be defined in a number of ways, including reason, understanding, comprehension, discernment, insight, rationality, mind, or intellect. This is the instinctive faculty given to humans by Allah (سبحانه وتعالى), by which we comprehend the reality of our existence and this world.”

PsychologyIntellectComprehensionAql
Book:Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
Create image

“Form is what transforms the content of a work into its essence. Do you understand? The character of music arises out of its form like steam from water,’ Yury Andreevich said. ‘With solid understanding of the general laws of form, which encompass all that is amenable to formulation, one can, by groping further, perceive the individual, the particular. Then, subtracting the general, one can sense a residue where wonder lurks in its purest, most undiluted form. Herein lies the goal of theory: the more fully one grasps what is available for comprehension, the more intensely the ineffable shines.”

ArtFormUnderstandingBeautyMusicKnowledgeLearningTheoryPerceptionEssenceMeaningComprehensionContent
Book:The Big Green Tent
Create image