Deep Comprehension Quotes

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy