Comprehension Quotes

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.

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.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

A man hears only what he understands.

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Information is not knowledge.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.