Quotes About Comprehension

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could appreciate him as I did; nobody could love him as I—could.

Then Mason made an astonishing comment. He said to the girl, adamantly, in his slightly garbled and mumbly way, "You know, I used to have brain cancer. I was in a coma, and then I was here again." I had to close my eyes at the beauty of his understanding—that he was here again. He had woken up, as we are all called to do. I said, "You are a miracle.

La experiencia real es el conocimiento

nonsenses to them that reminded her of

You are the night, and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms

I understand, I am just beginning, I am just beginning to understand

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

or even on the same evening? Five nights ago the Voice had said, "You of all understand me. You of all understand power

You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language.

Yes, I see.' 'Beware.' 'Of thinking I understand?' 'Precisely [...]

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it

What does it mean to write? David, you'll never see this question repeated, because with each page I understand more and more-I see the patterns that have before eluded me, and driven me to dream rather than to live.

The mysterious he was no mystery whatsoever to me.

What could these words mean to her? They must have sounded like old poetry. How could I expect her to grasp what I had said.

I always understood you. I've always understood Goblin. Are you going to betray all that now?

What if marrying Shelley meant that she would end up just like him, unable to realize a thing's happening or a moment's passing? What if it were like a contagious disease, so that soon she would be wandering around in a daze and incapable of putting her finger on any given thing and saying, that is that?

these people are a family. See? They want to learn how families work and that's what they think these customers are. Get it?" "Got it," Willa said.

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

The great thing about alpha was that it could be explained:

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

Depth of knowledge combined with good judgment is worth a lot. Depth

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!" —Richard Feynman

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