The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Composing is an extension of my being, skills and knowledge.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

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

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'