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