We are taught words, not ideas.
The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.
Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them
God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.
Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
