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Comprehension Quotes

"I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me."
Buddha
"The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said."
Kevin Kelly
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"
Jane Austen
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
Elbert Hubbard
"In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Some people are just too stupid to understand what's written in the playbooks."
Tom Brady
"Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Much learning does not teach understanding"
Heraclitus
"There is a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something"
richard feynman
"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them"
Paulo Freire
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"
Edmund Burke
"To understand just one life you have to swallow the world"
Salman Rushdie
"Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth"
Anne Sexton
"A person hears only what they understand "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them"
Anatole France
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak"
John Quincy Adams
"If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation."
Haruki Murakami
"What does it mean to understand something fully? It means to be able to analyze and explain it"
Umberto Eco
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