Understanding & Comprehension Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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.

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.

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

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

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

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

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

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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