Quotes About Comprehension

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.

El señor Morrel comprendió que nada podía intentarse: un comisario con su faja no es ya un hombre, es la estatua de la ley, fría, sorda, muda.

Il n'y a que les méchants qui nient l'amitié, parce qu'ils ne la comprennent pas.

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.

She realized it had never been love between them, for you cannot love someone you can never know.

They frowned, looked to one another with shallow and delighted eyes, eyes that just skimmed over the surface of things without understanding.

The job she had to do, as she saw it, was to remember everything—and by "remember" she meant experience it in her mind, one more time—then store it away forever. This day's experience set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside.

for me to say." He smiled; he shook his head. "I don't

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.

Children ask questions piecemeal because they take their time to make sense of the information they receive. They know what they can manage and stop asking when they had enough. It is a good

I know too much and not enough.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

What do you mean like ? Like, like like?

No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.

No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end.

Just as careful listening is critical to understanding our verbal pronouncements, so careful observation is vital to comprehending our body language.

When you're a teacher, you realize that you have to clearly encapsulate some unrelated technical ideas that you take for granted and understand and put them into words so someone else will understand them.

She shook her head, gazing at me with a mixture of exasperation and annoyance. "I understand now why you never have a girlfriend, Perry.""What? I've had a girlfriend! What's that got to do with anything?""You do not know how to listen to a woman

Every page, top to bottom, right to left, like an automatic scanner.

What good to your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]