Quotes About Comprehension

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

those who truly know, knows those who don't, will learn if they ask

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

No one said anything; they didn't need to. That's what it's like between best friends. Sometimes you just know what each other's thinking. You don't always have to say it.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is information; wisdom is knowing how to use it.

Please excuse this slow-witted talabeh, who will have to read the text and the margins several times to make sure he gets today's lesson right.

Obscure words should be defined in texts or made clear from context. But the reading vocabulary of the average citizen is larger than the writing vocabulary of the typical author.

I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me: talking about how reading and writing work.

Look at the bigger picture.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Every woman knows all about everything.

Reading is fundamental.

I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth