Quotes About Comprehension

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

não basta ver uma mulher para a conhecer, é preciso ouvi-la também; ainda que muitas vezes basta ouvi-la para a não conhecer jamais.

coisa que não era necessário dizer, mas há leitores tão obtusos, que nada entendem, se se lhes não relata tudo e o resto. Vamos ao resto. 

Dear God! we must explain everything.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

The author & the reader know each other: they meet on the bridge of words

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

Sure, go ahead." Calvin fished in his pocket and pulled out a wad of folded paper. "As a matter of fact, I have some junk of mine to finish up. Math. That's one thing I have a hard time keeping up in. I'm okay on anything to do with words, but I don't do as well with numbers.

Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like...a feeling.

would want if she were able to speak, Nora

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.

Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it can't be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off.

At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.

But let's not forget that if you are reading this book, then you are a reader and that means you've probably never had to think of all the shortcuts and strategies and bypasses that exist to get around reading

that made the unfamiliar familiar.