Quotes About Comprehension

some men run out of stories, of conversation, in no time at all. Either so little has happened to them or, more likely, they are incapable of understanding or retaining what has happened to them, and so they soon find themselves with nothing to say. Such a man makes a terrible companion.

We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.

Who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense - from "Progress and it's Sustainability

How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.

You will never, ever understand how much I love you…until you have children of your own and then every word I've ever said will make perfect sense.

You can achieve knowledge only through comparing the two sides, positive and negative, which have become separated from each other. As long as these two sides are together, resting in each other, you can't perceive or recognize anything.

read through your tutorial essay draft. Sixty pages describing an off-white canvas. Indecipherable." She shook her head. "It's as if you never learned the most basic analytical habits, so you never had to unlearn them.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

I remember you saying how much people knew that they didn't know they knew.

Thou comest! all is said without a word.

much as Flush tries to understand me when I tell him that barking and jumping may be unseasonable things.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

She hadn't understood the plan until she spoke it.

There was so much information, and I had so little sense of what any of it meant.

I should have known she'd read through the riddle of thy presence.

made articulate seemed to

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'".

She felt for the first time in her life, a sense of likeness with another human creature, and a sense of safety, not so much physical safety as the safety of understanding that comes between those who are two of a sort.

Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds might understand (or misunderstand) it. Then they need to take each mind from not getting it to mastery. And they need to do this in 45 minutes or less.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I know that. I've read it before,' 'Is that so? What is it like to read a novel when you know what's going to happen?' 'Once you know the story, you can notice other things.

We think we know our friends, our lovers, but really all we know is pieces of them

it's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.