Understanding Concepts Quotes

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

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?