Quotes about Comprehension

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension... We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

To know is not less than to feel.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

By some men's too much understanding, others are brought to understand nothing at all.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.