Seneca the Younger Quotes

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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.

My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.

In order to produce the satisfaction of comprehension, there first needs to be the process of comprehension. Furthermore, the overarching idea at hand needs to be something that is actually comprehensible.

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.

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

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

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ere we can forecast the future we must understand the present and bring a just sense of proportion to our review of the history of the past.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

Comprehension follows perception.

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

In reading we must become creators.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...