Quotes About Comprehension

What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say so but simply an acute awareness of what I have not included. The faces and voices of all that I have left out crowd around me as I reach the end.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

We can only love what we know.

My dear sir, if we only talked about what we understood, our conversation would be extremely limited.

Man has no knowledge of things except by the thoughts present to his mind; that is, he can only know what is thinkable.

Wisdom is inconceivable apart from something about which it can be called into operation.

Prepping people to believe something was the hard part. Once the framework was established, they became eager to fill in the details themselves, and could be counted on to do so even if those details made little sense. Remar

He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

He realized he'd spent his life trying to understand Billy. But had never really understood himself.

La cuestión es, supongo, que me volví adicto a leer, si se puede llamar leer a esa forma rara y acelerada de experimentar los libros, demasiada rápida para entender lo que se estaba contando o lo que significaban las frases.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere.

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

A passion seizes to be a passion as soon as we form a clear idea of it.

Nu râde, nu jeli, nu urî, ci în?elege!

Those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'