Quotes About Comprehension

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

Era talvez meu hábito 'profissional' de colocar-me no lugar, ou na pele, dos outros. Isso não significa que sempre justifico esses outros, mas que tenho a capacidade de enxergar seus pontos de vista p. 95.

I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more.

This openness, which is closed again as soon as we face a partial relationship, the one who understands only one part of us, is the miraculous openess which takes place in whole love.

It shows that a woman is not really a critic but a penetrator. She does not judge, she understands.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Il faut de l'esprit pour bien parler, de l'intelligence suffit pour bien écouter.

I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it must be confessed they did not show it; most of them, I thought, did not really live - contented themselves with appearing to live, and were on the verge of considering life merely as a vexatious hindrance to writing.

When one talks it's in order to be understood.

J'écoute si bien les oiseaux; je crois que je comprends tout ce qu'ils disent.

It's not as if there's an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, 'There's my ignorance; it's about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.

If two people have been able to experience the same thing even once, they will be able to understand each other.

Você olha um relógio. Ele funciona, mostra as horas. Você tenta compreender como ele funciona e o desmonta. Ele não anda mais. E no entanto essa é a única maneira de compreender...