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Quotations about comprehension

Albert EinsteinIf you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

 - Albert Einstein

Tags:   comprehension  simplicity  teaching  

Leonardo da VinciAnyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

 - Leonardo da Vinci

ConfuciusI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

 - Confucius

Tags:   comprehension  memory  understanding  

Leo TolstoyTo say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

 - Leo Tolstoy

Tags:   art  comprehension