Quotes about Comprehension

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

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

For the Spirit is required to understand the whole of the Scripture and every part of it.

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

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

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

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

All of mankind's problems are a result of one major dilemma. What's this dilemma? Possession without comprehension; assignment without instruction; resources without knowledge; having everything but not knowing why. Essentially, the dilemma is that we lack understanding. Without understanding, life is an experiment, and frustration is the reward.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.