Comprehension Quotes

• You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Live
  • Horrors
  • Comprehension

• The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Language
  • Comprehension
  • Human Wisdom

• You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

  

  Lily King
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Language

• Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Balance

• The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

  

  Alexander Tsiaras
  • Comprehension
  • Genetic
  • Mechanisms

• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Unity

• The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • The Beatles
  • Comprehension
  • Smoking Marijuana

• There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Music
  • Science
  • Passion

• The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Help
  • Comprehension
  • Beatle

• I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Reading
  • Speed
  • Minutes

• The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Aim
  • Concepts

• Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Comprehension

• There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Science
  • Eye

• The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

  

  Abigail McCarthy
  • Apathy
  • Comprehension
  • Inattention

• I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
  • Moments
  • Realized
  • Flattered

• The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Joy
  • Discovery
  • Scientist

• I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Time
  • Men
  • Verge

• By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Reading
  • Vocabulary
  • Comprehension

• Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

  

  Raph Koster
  • Fun
  • Games
  • Drug

• In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

  

  Nicholas Ray
  • Different
  • Figures
  • Percent

• Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looks

• People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • People
  • Trying
  • Common