Analysis Quote by Zeno Vendler

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and…

— Douglas Hofstadter

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by…

— John Searle

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you…

— Edwin Newman

Understanding any concept or subject only means bringing, implementing and showing change either in self or others, wherever and whenever required, but the pervasive…

— Anuj Somany

“People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.”

— Brian Knapp

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

— Thomas Hobbes

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately…

— Baruch Spinoza

For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet…

— David Berman