Quotes About Comprehension

With Katharine, it seems, words are only her secondary means of communication.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

To be heard, you must speak the language of the one you want to listen.

Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own. I think now that it was a longing to comprehend this language I hear in the woods that led me to science, to learn over the years to speak fluent botany.

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own. I think now that it was a longing to comprehend this language I hear in the woods that led me to science, to learn over the years to speak fluent botany.

I can count

Anyway, if he can't figure it out himself, why can't he just watch you? Why can't he just do what you do? Why can't he just copy you? Or copy me? If he did for me what I do for him, we'd get along great!

But I understand it better than I can speak it.

I'd felt the ruma had magically understood everything that happened, but now I realize his gifts may have less to do with magic than with interpreting the world around him in a magical way.

Sanningen finns i allt om man bara kan förstå det.

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

Jonas repeated it. "Love." It was a word and concept new to him.

I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)

If you don't understand something, you should just try to learn more, that's all.

I've read The Book of the Law. I must be slow. I cannot make heads nor tails of it. Every time I read it, I glean one insight, yet still end up confused. Thanks, Name withheld ………………………… Dear Name withheld, Good! I'd be really worried if you said you understood The Book of the Law. One insight per reading is really a good track record.

You know how to be a good boy? Anna widened her eyes in surprise. Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

You're fucking crazy, he finally said, as though just realizing that. Hell, he had been with her how long now? Surely forever. And he was just now seeing that? Poor guy, he was just slow.

dog knew what the words meant.

To know something you had to be able to go inside and feel, then step outside and look, and then do that again: go inside, feel, then outside and look. You had to do it twice. That was knowledge. Two in a row.

Learn that you have a way of knowing each other which somehow slips out and beyond the ways you have of not knowing each other at all.

Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not

Son, it isn't how many books you read, it's what you get from those you do read.

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.